From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 10:59:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8AB16A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out010.verizon.net (out010pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FEA43D45 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040417175915.VFJM1910.out010.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:59:15 -0500 Message-ID: <408170DB.3070201@mac.com> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:00:59 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <20040416215610.Y1689@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20040416215610.Y1689@wonkity.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:59:15 -0500 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Milter Logging X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:59:16 -0000 Warren Block wrote: > What do people do for milter logging? A MAILER-DAEMON message for every > virus caught by clamav-milter is a little annoying (both to the intended > recipient and to postmaster), but I'm hesitant to just discard them. Well, the standards (RFC-822/2822) are clear, but with the dawn of viruses that forge sender addresses, creating bounces for viruses doesn't really do anybody much good, either. Refusing to accept viral mail is the best option if you can; failing that, I discard such messages. Frankly, I gave up bouncing viral mail after I got tired of answering complaints when someone got a bounce from a forgery... -- -Chuck