On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
> addresses through your outbound relay. A receiving relay has a > better scanner or just pulled the update that catches this one. Would > you prefer it to drop the message quietly or issue a reject, knowing We can play these hypothetical what-if games until the cows come home. The operating parameters that I run under are based on my experience with the here and now. What concerns me more is something like this: Suppose a researcher emails a proposal to a military agency (our campus lives off of its contracts and grants). If that better-than-my virus scanner on the other end mistakes my researcher's PDF file for a virus, then yes, I want it to let me know the email was not delivered. > that the bounce to the forged From: is very likely to infect another > one of your user's machines? If that's a concern, then enabling sendmail's nobodyreturn option is probably in order. > they couldn't see each other's HSRP heartbeats. After that experience > I'm convinced that anything that identifies a virus should do > everything possible to make sure it does not reach another windows > machine. Again, as another member of this list so sagely noted, a policy decision like that really depends on the expectation of the system administrator's user base and his relationship with them. Jim McCullars University of Alabama in Huntsville _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
