On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Josh Kelley wrote:I'm sure that this topic has come up many times on the list before, and I'm sorry for bringing it up again, but the last time I remember seeing it discussed here, I thought that the general consensus was that bounce was better, for roughly the following reasons:
he mimedefang-filter manpage still recommends using action_bounceRight. I should fix the man page.
rather than action_discard. Is action_bounce no longer recommended?
1. Most mass-mailing viruses are sent directly by the virus, in which case no one will see any bounces generated.
2. Bounces will be generated anyway, if a mass-mailed virus is sent to an invalid email address, so avoiding action_bounce won't stop bounced viruses.
3. If the the virus is, for example, a Word macro virus, it shouldn't be silently dropped.
4. To summarize, in the man page's words, "It's almost never a good idea to hide a problem."
Why the change in recommendation?
Again, sorry for rehashing old material.
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