Re: [Exim] FIY: Turn off virus alerts to sender (slightly OT…

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Author: Chris Edwards
Date:  
To: Calum Mackay
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] FIY: Turn off virus alerts to sender (slightly OT)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Calum Mackay wrote:

| On a related note, I know many people also block common virus spreading
| extensions via a demime file extension check. This is often done first,
| since a demime condition is more lightweight than a demime+malware one,
| and so many viruses will be caught this way, rather than directly by the
| virus checker.


Yes

| Are we saying that this check should also not use "deny", but should
| instead be a warn+freeze?


No - deny the lot.

Cheers

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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service