> On Mar 8, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Tom Hendrikx <t...@whyscream.net> wrote: > > > On 08-03-16 16:56, @lbutlr wrote: >> before I duplicate work, I thought I’d check if someone else has >> already done something like this. >> >> Currently, amavis sends a notification to the virusal...@mydomain.tld >> address when it catches something with a forbidden (BANNED) >> attachment. >> >> I’d like to create a notification email for the original user that >> says something like “an email from <senderaddress> was blocked >> because it had an attachment of type $TLX" where $TLX is the >> attachment extension that was caught by amavisd. >> > > Seeing that most of the stuff that I catch with a virus scanner on > incoming mail is sent by a bad guy (or a botnet on behalf of a bad guy), > and not by an innocent person with a PC that generates macro-infected > office documents (for instance). > > The mail from the bad guy is never sent from a valid address, so you'll > be generating backscatter when you inform the envelope sender
No, I want to notify the intended recipient (well, *AN* intended recipient). > It's way better to scrub the attachment and send the message along, in > that way the recipient can at least see the original message contents > (without the attachment). How do you do that? (Isn’t mimedefang kind of dead?) -- By the way, I think you might be the prettiest girl I've ever seen outside the pages of a really filthy magazine