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

Wed Aug 20 16:46:44 UTC 2003

In a message written on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:40:53AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Absolutely not.  My spam filters are handling the original spam fine but I am 
> getting tons of responses to email I didn't send in the first place.  It's 
> legitimate email from legitimate sources so the filters don't catch it but it 
> is garbage nonetheless.

For those that use spamassassin, in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs:

header VIRUS_BOUNCE             X-MailScanner =~ /Found to be clean/
describe VIRUS_BOUNCE           Has X-MailScanner with virus signature.
score VIRUS_BOUNCE              5.0

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