Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:09:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Logan Ashby <lashby@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amavisd/clamav Virus Recipient email notification template woes Message-ID: <20040730160947.4fdbe0dd.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <9cd98d120407301237e31f8ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <12abd8c2040730104259ea346e@mail.gmail.com> <9cd98d120407301237e31f8ef@mail.gmail.com>
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Logan Ashby <lashby@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:42:00 -0400, Tim Schutt <tschutt@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've got postfix/amavisd/clamav configured on my mailserver, but I am > > having trouble getting the notification emails to format properly. > > Virus and spam notifications are a bad idea. Both types of email > forge the sender address, so notifications to the sender wind up going > to a third party that can't do anything about the problem. Notices to > the intended recipient are simply a waste of bandwidth. > > I know there are those who feel you should never discard mail, but in > this case, I'm fine with it. Agreed. I actually have people on my blocklist because their virus protection continues to send me alerts that I "may have a virus on my system" If you're going to send notification, there is only one _proper_ way to do it: analyze the Received: headers and find out where the virus _really_ originated, then contact the abuse@ address for that domain with the message. Despite how easy this is to do, it doesn't seem like a lot of AV packages bother with it ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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