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Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mary)
Sun Dec 11 00:53:19 2005

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 05:52:49 +0000 (UTC)
From: mary <malum@freeshell.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <439B8A25.1060002@JustThe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> [snip Eicar signature]
>
> You didn't attach it. If you had, I'm pretty sure Exim (running an ACL 
> plugged into ClamAV) would have caught it before it got to my Inbox. Clam 
> detects Eicar just fine. :>

:)  I did receive two "your message contains a virus" replies.  One was 
a "Panda GateDefender", sounds Windowsish.

> What you did was include it inline in a text/plain MIME part in your message, 
> where it isn't likely that it could do any harm even if it *was* a real 
> virus.

<nods> real harm/mass traffic not intended

-m

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