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
>>    
>>
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