[61029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Thu Aug 21 09:26:58 2003
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:25:58 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200308210856.05422.doon@inoc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Patrick Muldoon wrote:
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>On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:08 am, David Schwartz wrote:
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>> One of my pet peeves is anti-virus programs that detect a virus by name,
>>so they should know that it always spoofs the sender address, still sending
>>messages referring to the "message you sent". I wonder if people receive
>>those, scan for viruses, and then when they don't find one, do one of the
>>following:
>>
>> 1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 'repairs',
>>or
>>
>> 2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances.
>>
>>
>
> 3)Call up their Geeky son and panic...
><rant>
>On this subject, my major pet peeve would be that at least 85% of the bounce
>messages that I have seen coming back here, don't contain enough information
>to figure out where the Original Message
>
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Amavis sends back in the notification message the original message's
headers (plus more if you wish).
amavis-new has templates and such.
You would think other people who pay their developers nice sums of money
could do the same.
