Re: Exiscan: notifications?

"Matt" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:55:31 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.exiscan.user
Message-ID <001a01c4e6cd$dca8f140$010000ac@matthew>
>> Amavis used to send notifications to recipients, admins and (optionally)
>> senders whenever a virus showed up. Can I do the same with exiscan?
>
> Yes and no. You can, but not as easily. However, in most cases it's
> pointless and in particular you should NOT send notifications to senders.
> See the below page:

Does the same not apply to SPAM?  What really annoys me are some of our 
email users that use Mailwasher or a similar program that fakes a bounce 
back at the return address on the SPAM message.  It fakes the return address 
on this bounce message as [email protected] and makes it look like a 
bounce.  The belief is that sender of the SPAM will see this faked bounce 
and remove them from there mailing list.  As if SPAMmers care if they get 
bounces to accounts that usually do not exist anyway.  My postmaster account 
is nearly useless now since it gets nearly 1000 of there faked bounces 
bounced back at me a day.  Any links to articles on the net explaining as to 
why this is a bad idea?  I have had no luck explaining it.

Matt