To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?

Damian Gerow damian at sentex.net
Wed Aug 20 14:58:54 UTC 2003


Thus spake Tomas Daniska (tomas at tronet.com) [20/08/03 10:56]:
> maybe the AV vendors could suply a 'to mail or not to mail' flag within
> their databases, based on character of the virus...

amavisd-new maintains a list of viruses that are known to forge sender
addresses.  It won't notify the sender (if configured) if the virus found is
in the list.

I can't speak for the other amavis* projects.



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