You are right, when the message contains real virus. But when user send as a attachment fe .exe file, which is blocked in qmail-scanner, but the user dont know that, the message will be droped by server and sender nor recipient will not get any message. Which is wrong.
kolisko V Út, 30. 03. 2004 v 14:07, Alex Pleiner píše: > * - = k o l i s k o = - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-30 13:29]: > > So my idea is, when somebody send a email with dangerous attachment, > > perl_scanner will only remove the attachment and put the text to the > > message, that attachment was removed. And normaly send the email to > > recipients. Recipient will see the message complete but danger > > attachment will be not attached. > > I have intercepted tons of virus mails -- none of it had a single byte > of useful information for the intended recipient. So I guess it is the > best to just drop those mails and not annoy recipients. > > just my $.02 > > Alex -- --- Michal Kolesár Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
