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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Wed Aug 20 12:47:50 2003

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:46:44 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200308201140.54049.darcy@druid.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



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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=20
> getting tons of responses to email I didn't send in the first place.  It'=
s=20
> legitimate email from legitimate sources so the filters don't catch it bu=
t it=20
> is garbage nonetheless.

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

header VIRUS_BOUNCE             X-MailScanner =3D~ /Found to be clean/
describe VIRUS_BOUNCE           Has X-MailScanner with virus signature.
score VIRUS_BOUNCE              5.0

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       Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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