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Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?

  • From: Gerardo A. Gregory
  • Date: Thu Aug 21 10:55:27 2003

I attest to Amavis on this one. Message headers, virus found, and also if you quarentine the message it sends the quarentined file name.
Gerardo
Joe Maimon writes:


Patrick Muldoon wrote:
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:08 am, David Schwartz wrote:

One of my pet peeves is anti-virus programs that detect a virus by name,
so they should know that it always spoofs the sender address, still sending
messages referring to the "message you sent". I wonder if people receive
those, scan for viruses, and then when they don't find one, do one of the
following:
1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 'repairs',
or
2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances.

3)Call up their Geeky son and panic...
<rant>
On this subject, my major pet peeve would be that at least 85% of the bounce messages that I have seen coming back here, don't contain enough information to figure out where the Original Message
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Amavis sends back in the notification message the original message's headers (plus more if you wish).
amavis-new has templates and such.
You would think other people who pay their developers nice sums of money could do the same.