Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:


Right, I forgot about that.

Anyway... Blocking servers wouldn't help in the case of viruses, I think. Ordinary people get viruses, and the mail is sent through their (probably correctly configured) smarthost. Maybe something like Postfix
header_checks? But that would also require some work :-(


J.


Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how the blocking works), some of the newer worms do not use the smarthost, but instead they use their own little SMTP engine. IIRC, Sobig.F did this.


--Rich

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