Re: AW: Exiscan: notifications?

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

| Please do not put a "deny" in your Exim configuration.  That will
| produce a bounce to the impersonated sender.

Wrong !


| You must accept viruses because the sender is forged.  Otherwise, you
| will be bouncing them back to an innocent party.

Wrong again !

The virus-engine ignores the 5xx response and so the abuse disappears into
the ether.  If however you do hit a genuine mail the sending MTA will
inform its user delivery has failed.


| Instead, use "warn" to tag the message. Then, use a router to deliver
| the message into quarantine.

Completely impractical here - we do not have the staff to manually check
tens-of-thousands of ``quarantined'' viruses per day.


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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service