Thanks for the quick response, Jerod! Sorry I missed the previous discussions. I assume you mean to turn them off entirely.
So I should disable the sender notification, but leave the recipient notification on, right? Or is there some reason why I should turn off the recipient as well?
Thanks!
-peter
Jerod Powell wrote:
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Peter,
We have talked about this subject at length on this list and the general consensus is that as a mail admin you should probably turn off your virus notifications...too many viruses these days spoof addresses and it is highly likely that 90% of the messages you send out are not to the actual sender of the virus. My advice, turn off notifications.
Jerod
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Lakanen Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:07 PM To: Modus List Subject: [Modus] Threat To Report Me for Mail Abuse Due to Modus Virus Warnings
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Apparently someone got a "potentially harmful content" warning from my mail server today. He sent me this message:
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MyDoom forges headers. I never sent you any such message.
You're spamming me with these incorrect error messages! Please turn them off. If you persist, I will blackhole your domain and report platinumweb.com to mail abuse sites.
Thank you.
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I sent him this response:
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Dude.
Reporting me for mail abuse because of virus warnings (legit or not) is pretty extreme.
My server is not being abusive. My clients want to be notified and want
people sending them messages to be notified when they receive messages filled with viruses.
Yeah, it sucks that some of these mail viruses spoof the FROM address, but just like every other mail virus, in a couple more weeks, these nuisance messages will die down.
I welcome a dialogue with you regarding this and I will investigate turning off messages to only your domain, but I don't think I can do it.
Faced with the choice of turning off all warning messages for all my clients because you're upset that some virus is spoofing your address or
leaving them on and you getting a few messages is an easy decision for me.
As an alternative, why don't you dig through the mail headers and track down the machine with the virus spoofing your address and go after it/them? If I can assist by providing any info to you, I will be happy
to.
Of course, there is another option which is that some machine on your network is infected and is sending out these messages without your knowledge. These addresses usually come out of address books - so it could be a machine on your network or from a machine external to your network with both our addresses (yours and mine) in its address book. Are you sure you're clean?
Hope we can work this out amicably.
-peter
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Can I block just his domain from getting these notifications?
Anyone have any comments on what else I can do to handle these types of situations?
Are virus notifications really justitification for reporting me for mail
abuse?
I welcome feedback from the Modus community.
Thanks!
-peter
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