[Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread spam
Hi, I'm using Exim4, Courier and clamav. Clamav works fine on my server. When an infected message is detected, clamav removes it and sends a report to the sender. Is it possible to inform the recipient about the rejected mail? Thanks in advance, Michael __

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Jim Maul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Exim4, Courier and clamav. Clamav works fine on my server. When an infected message is detected, clamav removes it and sends a report to the sender. Is it possible to inform the recipient about the rejected mail? Yes it is possible, but clamav doesnt han

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 at 10:06:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Exim4, Courier and clamav. > Clamav works fine on my server. > When an infected message is detected, clamav removes it and sends a report > to the sender. This is a bad behaviour. You're bothering innocent people (em

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Thorolf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Tomasz Papszun wrote: | | This is a bad behaviour. You're bothering innocent people (email worms | falsify senders). | Try to reject emails at least after DATA in SMTP trasaction. | |>Is it possible to inform the recipient about the rejected

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi, > I'm using Exim4, Courier and clamav. > Clamav works fine on my server. > When an infected message is detected, clamav removes it and sends a report > to the sender. You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no reason to believe it is going to th

RE: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Shayne Lebrun
> You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no reason > to believe it is going to the sender. You should disable this feature. Sounds like he wants to inform the recipient, not the sender. "Hi, you got a mail from so and so, but it had a virus, so I deleted it. If you're act

RE: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Gareth Blades
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: > > You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no reason > > to believe it is going to the sender. You should disable this feature. > > Sounds like he wants to inform the recipient, not the sender. > > "Hi, you got a mail from

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: > > You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no reason > > to believe it is going to the sender. You should disable this feature. > > Sounds like he wants to inform the recipient, not the sender. > > "Hi, you got a mail f

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:44 -0800, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: > > Still probably bad form, as you'd be spamming the living daylights out of > > the poor recipient. > > this is why you simply reject (5xx) the message at the gates. And then they

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:49, Daniel J McDonald wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:44 -0800, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: > > > Still probably bad form, as you'd be spamming the living daylights out > > > of the poor recipient. > > > > this i

[Clamav-users] Re: Error when running clamav

2006-01-05 Thread Nsubuga Ronald Tash
Hullo list, Happy New Year. Am running freeBSD 4.11 I tried to upgrade my clamav and it seemed to have worked but surprisingly it has failed to work. when it try to start it fails to run at all and when i checked for the errors it displayed the following error. Jan 5 19:05:02 2006 -> Log si

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Error when running clamav

2006-01-05 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:02, Nsubuga Ronald Tash wrote: > Hullo list, > Happy New Year. happy new year! > Am running freeBSD 4.11 > I tried to upgrade my clamav and it seemed to have worked but surprisingly > it has failed to work. mmk > when it try to start it fails to run at all and

RE: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:49, Daniel J McDonald wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:44 -0800, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: Still probably bad form, as you'd be spamming the living daylights out of the p

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Jackson
IMHO the strongest argument for 1) is the "innocent bystander" analogy. Suppose you're manning a post office counter. A young man with his head shaved and "Fight the Power" tattoos hands you a ticking package with grease stains. He keeps looking over his shoulder. The return address on the

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread shuttlebox
On 1/5/06, Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IMHO the strongest argument for 1) is the "innocent bystander" analogy. > > > > Suppose you're manning a post office counter. A young man with his head > > shaved and "Fight the Power" tattoos hands you a ticking package with > > grease stai

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Error when running clamav

2006-01-05 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 05/01/06 22:02 +0300, Nsubuga Ronald Tash wrote: > Hullo list, > Happy New Year. > > Am running freeBSD 4.11 > I tried to upgrade my clamav and it seemed to have worked but surprisingly it > has failed to work. > > when it try to start it fails to run at all and when i checked for the erro

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > any legitimate MTA treating a 5xx response as a "I won't take it, but > > try my backup MXs" should be shot, along with the author(s) and the > > operator(s). > > This is an undecidable question. There are legitimate arguments for bot

RE: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> any legitimate MTA treating a 5xx response as a "I won't take it, >>> but try my backup MXs" should be shot, along with the author(s) and >>> the operator(s). >> >> This is an undecidable question. There are l

RE: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
Shayne Lebrun said: >> You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no reason >> to believe it is going to the sender. You should disable this feature. > > Sounds like he wants to inform the recipient, not the sender. He does - I chose to address the greater stupidity. dp __

RE: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gareth Blades said: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: >> > You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no >> reason >> > to believe it is going to the sender. You should disable this feature. >> >> Sounds like he wants to inform the recipient, not the sender. >>

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Dale Lists
Mike Jackson wrote: IMHO the strongest argument for 1) is the "innocent bystander" analogy. Suppose you're manning a post office counter. A young man with his head shaved and "Fight the Power" tattoos hands you a ticking package with grease stains. He keeps looking over his shoulder. The

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread clamav
At 03:31 PM 1/5/2006, Dale Lists wrote: [some political ramblings] this is the clamav.net list. i get enough political diatribes in the newspaper magazines on television on the radio in email on assorted websites in IM from my mother from my brothers from friends from acquaintances let's keep t

Re: [Clamav-users] Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-05 Thread Glenn
On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > this is the clamav.net list. i get enough political diatribes in > > the newspaper > magazines > on television > on the radio > in email > on assorted websites > in IM > from my mother > from my brothers > from friends > from acquaint