Hi,

well, that's what IMails Anti-Virus solution would accomplish.  Imail
AntiVirus supposedly rejects infected messages DURING the ONGOING SMTP
conversation BEFORE it is accepted.  The result would be a bounce message
from the SENDING mail server.  Any questions regarding that bounce message
would be directed at the post master of the SENDING mail server - which is
the correct target.  After all, only the sending post master has access to
his server's own logs and can determine why and from whom THEIR mail server
accepted the infected message.

If they accecpted and RELAYED an infected message to YOUR server, then they
deserve to receive the bounce messages and they rightfully should be the
ones doing the legwork - even if the message did not ORIGINATE at their
system.  If they would run a virus scanner, then THEIR mail server could
have never been used to relay the infection in the first place.  And if
everyone did, then viruses would be stopped at the first hop.

Best Regards
Andy Schmidt

Phone:  +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business)
Fax:    +1 201 934-9206



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Davenport
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Scott,

We've seen Klez.E, Klez.H and now Bugbear falsifying from addresses.  How
long before Declude will give you the option to have it use the domain name
from the headers and add abuse@ in front of the actual originating sending
mail server, rather than relying on the from address?  Especially for those
viruses that falsify the from address.

I don't think we will ever be able to get rid of these types of viruses
unless there is some way to accurately send messages to where the message
truly originates, rather than what the domain name in the from address is.

Any thoughts?  From what I've seen, the originating mail server in the
headers is usually not falsified.

Trent
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