Re: Exiscan: notifications?
"Matt" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:55:31 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.exim.exiscan.user |
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| 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