[61032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerardo A. Gregory)
Thu Aug 21 10:53:28 2003
In-Reply-To: <3F44C866.5040501@ttec.com>
From: "Gerardo A. Gregory" <ggregory@affinitas.net>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:43:23 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I attest to Amavis on this one. Message headers, virus found, and also if
you quarentine the message it sends the quarentined file name.
Gerardo
Joe Maimon writes:
>
>
>
> Patrick Muldoon wrote:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:08 am, David Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>
> <snip>
> 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.
>
>
