Re: AW: Exiscan: notifications?

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Rich at Whidbey Telecom wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Steffen Heil wrote:
>
>> And you should never accept a virus, you should deny it.
>
> Please do not put a "deny" in your Exim configuration.  That will produce a 
> bounce to the impersonated sender.
>

90%+ of viruses are being sent by the virus itself, so a  deny on recipt 
of virus does not generate any kind of bounce to the forged sender, so 
this is not a major concern.

If a mail server is dumb enough to relay a virus, then perhaps a bounce 
will be generated by the relay, but in my experience with a medium scale 
installation, this is a very rare occurance.

Now bounces after the fact are just as bad as sender virus notifications, 
but that's a whole different issue.