I'm pretty new to running a real mail server on linux, can ya'll give me some ideas on how to drop emails with offending attachments?
god, I sound like a huge n00b. jason -ray wrote: >On Tuesday we starting dropping all pif files since the 'our mailserver >removed the SoBig virus from this attachment' virus messages were getting >annoying. > >Here's how many we've blocked: 64575 > >Increasing by about 20,000 a day... > >ray > > >On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Edmund Cramp wrote: > > > >>We're getting about 50 per day that get through our SpamAssassin/Reverse >>lookup filter - these get 100% caught by the Kaspersky AV filter in the >>mailserver :-)) >> >>Oddly enough, the SpamAssassin / Reverse Lookup filter has proved >>surprisingly effective at bouncing the mass mailing virus emails as well >>as reducing our spam level by at least 90% - on average we reject about >>18,000 emails per week as spam - SoBig.f has added about 1000 to this >>average so far this week! >> >>-- >>Edmund Cramp >>http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm >>"If more languages had _smite_ implemented, the remaining programmers >>would be better than the current average." >> - Mike Andrews in the scary.devil.monastery >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
