My mail filter blocks extensions, so I need this bounce back to notify the legitimate senders that they must send in a different format.

Of course, X-Loop is used.


On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:36, Kelson Vibber wrote:
At 12:06 PM 2/9/2004, Wess Bechard wrote:
>If you do use procmail, you can use virus.email to send a message as a 
>bounce back. :)

Right.  That way you can send bogus bounce notices to people who didn't 
send you attachments in the first place, thus doubling the amount of 
traffic generated by a virus outbreak without actually notifying the people 
whose computers *are* infected.

Unfortunately, that's all you can really do when you're blocking solely 
based on file extensions: you can't separate clueless senders from viruses, 
so you can't just silently discard things without risking false positives.


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net> 
Wess Bechard
Technical Support
eliquidMEDIA
International Inc.

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