> Just a quick note about the virus submitted to this mailing list
> yesterday. It was relayed through our mail system but originated from an
> external IP address outside the Tucows system. The reason why the virus
> was undetected was because the tucows.com domain was configured as a
> trusted domain which meant it was exempt from virus checking.
>
> This has since been disabled so that there are no exceptions for virus
> checking within our email system.
This is a good warning why you should NEVER do any sort of routing or
authentication based on domain names in emails. It is just too easily
forged. IP addresses are the only secure way...
Glad you fixed it and sorry for starting yesterday's flamefest :(
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