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

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Autor: Pat Lashley
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A: Calum Mackay
CC: Tim Jackson, exim-users, Willie Viljoen
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] FIY: Turn off virus alerts to sender (slightly OT)
--On Wednesday, February 11, 2004 18:59:11 +0000 Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@???> wrote:

> So some people actually send out-of-band reply emails, to the
> sender, in additional to denying the original in the ACL?


Not only the purported sender; but also the intended recipient.

I'm somewhat astonished that you haven't seen any yet. Several
of the mailing lists have been spammed by bogus 'you sent a virus'
messages from systems with this misfeature. The real fun comes
when one of these viri picks your address to forge as the sender...



-Pat