Todd Ryan wrote at 06:26 AM 12/11/2001 -0500:
>Now I'm not sure how Michael feels about virus filtering on the server, but
>I DO agree with that. As long as it gives detailed notification to the
>sender and/or receiver that a virus had been caught and tell them the
>subject of the message. As you would guess, we do this with Declude. This
>way I never simply dump a message regardless of whether it had a virus,
>based on the extension. My users can rest assured that they get everything
>that was intended for them except messages with a virus attached and in that
>case, the sender gets a kind notification (with help on virus scanning)
>telling them which message contained which virus. But any EXE, SCR, VBS,
>etc, attachments that are clean go right through.
That sounds great, and gets to the bottom of this.
>I also would like to point out to Michael that not all on this list are
>ISP's with paying customers. I use IMail in two different jobs. One is an
>ISP (the scenerio above) and the other is a private company with internal
>users.
I understand that, and I am actually a third kind of user on this list. I am a
domain-level administrator who signed up on this list because I found that my ISP
sysadmin was sending me info about Imail that was likely incorrect. I have stuck
around because it is pretty interesting.
>The users have no rights here. Yes, I would be upset, but the users need to
>see that a little inconvenience is acceptable to prevent network chaos.
>This is VERY different than for an ISP because an ISP does not have to
>support the end-user's desktop.
>
>My point there was that you should be aware that not all responses you get
>are from ISPs that think filtering with rules.ima is a good idea. Some are
>private companies where they have every right and responsibility to do so.
Yes. Thanks for bringing it together and making everything clear. Declude is obviously
hands and shoulders better than just using the rules file.
Michael Welch
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