-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:18:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > If a message is either rejected (during the SMTP dialog) or bounced > > (after accepting and queueing the message) then the same innocent > > third party receives some junk mail.[1] The difference is only in > > which server is sending the bounce message. > > Not so. > > Few viral SMTP servers will generate and forward a bounce. > > SMTP servers holding an open connection with the originating MUA (or the > virus itself) will pass the reject message to the originating client. > > Only misconfigured smarthosts will generate a spurious bounce.
Which is what I was counting on, more or less, when I came up with the exim/clamav sollution. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALpUcUzgNqloQMwcRAngAAJ40PGbTuX/re15mqwVJMfgSbNtq9wCfepJP b/K749RgvRIboirdrDLXDYY= =oZJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]