On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:44:25PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote: > Wow -- a response -- great! ;-) Now that I know someone is listening, > kindly permit me to comment at, ummm, greater length on the default > warning message sent by qmail-scanner. > ...
Thanks for that > (BTW, what exactly are your criteria for determining that something is a > "mailing-list or other automated Email message"? Apart from empty > vs. non-empty envelope senders, I don't see how you can make this > determination.) Plenty - "Use the Code Luke" :-) > To summarize my not-at-all humble opinion: virus scanners should not > notify the intended recipient that a virus was stopped. (That's just > stupid -- the whole point of virus scanners is to keep junk out of my > mailbox, and 37 "I stopped a virus for you" messages are just as Well stupid or not - it ain't enabled by default - because I agree with you! However, plenty others don't. > annoying as 37 viral messages. Also, stupid virus scanners tend to send > "I stopped a virus for you" messages to mailing lists, which is even > worse.) Virus scanners should not bother to notify the apparent sender Well, that's why it checks for mailing-list details. > summaries of the caught viruses. Getting a notification for every virus > caught on a busy system would be a massive hassle. Well that would be why there's a "--notify none" option?.... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
