On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:33:18PM +0200, Michael Str�der wrote:
> > I just wonder why this program send this info to the list and not
> > to the person who sent the virus ;-)
>
> Because the mailing list processor is configured to set the Reply-To
> address to the list address. IMHO this should be changed to reduce
> such problems with automatic replies (vacation e-mails, virus-scans
> etc.).
Won't help.
This is a typical "what should an automated agent do when deciding who to
send Email to" problem.
A proper anti-virus system would check for evidence of the message being
from a mailing-list (Precedence: bulk, "-return" headers - all sorts of
things), and decide not to send to that. Basically, it should act the same
way Postmaster bounces do. I know of no commercial AV systems that do that.
An example of such a system that does do that would be Qmail-Scanner
<http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/> - ahem. Not that I have anything to
do with that ;-)
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Jason Haar
Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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