Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Anyway, amavisd-new lists a dozen or so examples: # Treat envelope sender address as unreliable and don't send sender # notification / bounces if name(s) of detected virus(es) match the list. # Note that virus names are supplied

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Kelson Vibber
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: I believe it's way easier to do the opposite: list only viruses that do NOT fake the sender. The only ones you'd expect to find in email are things like eicar, joke and macro viruses. I just check for a small list (Mimail, Sober, etc.), plus anything that starts with

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Noel Jones
At 06:51 AM 1/10/2006, Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Anyway, amavisd-new lists a dozen or so examples: # Treat envelope sender address as unreliable and don't send sender # notification / bounces if name(s) of detected virus(es)

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-07 Thread Luca Gibelli
Hello Christopher, This way my users' mailboxes aren't cluttered with notices, but if a message they were expecting just doesn't show up, they can search the DB of what was thrown out to see if what they were waiting for was junked. FWIW amavisnewsql does a similar thing

[Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Michael
Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed. Thanks to all, Michael Neurohr ___

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread M.S. Lucas
From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed. If you do that please only inform your local users and *non* of

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Erwan David
Le Fri 6/01/2006, Michael disait Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed. But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that

[Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Michael
If you do that please only inform your local users and *non* of the internet users. I only want to send a message back to the sender, that he knows about the rejected mail. Why do you mean that there may come about so many mails? Michael Neurohr

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Michael
But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? Michael Neurohr

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Erwan David
Le Fri 6/01/2006, Michael disait But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? Too many

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread M.S. Lucas
From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do that please only inform your local users and *non* of the internet users. I only want to send a message back to the sender, that he knows about the rejected mail. Why do you mean that there may come about so many mails? Because a lot of virusses

RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Randal, Phil
But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? Michael Neurohr Many viruses harvest

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Leif Neland
Original Message From: Randal, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:23 PM Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Michael said: Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed. Since there is no way to know who the sender is, and since the recipient is not

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Dennis Peterson wrote: If you cannot reject it before the final .crlfcrlf then you keep it. It's dead. Pinin' for the fjords, bleeding demised, an ex-message, shuffled off it's mortal coil, lovely plumage and all. I will submit one other possibility: I use

RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Leif Neland wrote: Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? Michael Neurohr Many viruses harvest email addresses from the infected PC user's address book and inbox etc and use these as the From: address. And I

RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Brian McDonald
I will submit one other possibility: I use --postmaster-only to send the notices to a specific address, then have procmail pipe those to a script that parses it and adds specific information to an SQL database -- (From To Subject Date/Time and what Virus). This way my users' mailboxes aren't

RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Brian McDonald wrote: I will submit one other possibility: I use --postmaster-only to send the notices to a specific address, then have procmail pipe those to a script that parses it and adds specific information to an SQL database -- (From To Subject Date/Time and what Virus). This way my

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Michael said: But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? There are few that do not. The

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Kelson Vibber
Michael wrote: But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? YES! All major email

RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Brian McDonald wrote: Chris this sounds like an excellent solution can you share how you did this? Calling it a hack is an insult to hacks. :-) I'll try to take some time and make a version I can put out (remove our IP addresses, SQL passwords, etc)

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 02:24, Michael wrote: Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed. no you should NEVER notify the sender. the

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 03:13, Michael wrote: But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Christopher X. Candreva said: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Dennis Peterson wrote: If you cannot reject it before the final .crlfcrlf then you keep it. It's dead. Pinin' for the fjords, bleeding demised, an ex-message, shuffled off it's mortal coil, lovely plumage and all. I will submit one other

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 08:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leif Neland wrote: Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? Michael Neurohr Many viruses harvest email addresses from the infected PC user's address

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael wrote: But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus... Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address? I infer that you've never

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Steven Spence
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Friday 06 January 2006 02:24, Michael wrote: Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed. no you should NEVER

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 09:55, Steven Spence wrote: Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Friday 06 January 2006 02:24, Michael wrote: Ok, your massages convinced me only to report the sender. I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think one of the both, the sender or the

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Steven Spence
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: I wouldn't say never. If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could always send the notification back to the sender using the username supplied during the SMTP authentication process. After authentication has succedeed of course. :) rejecting the message should alert

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:35, Steven Spence wrote: Jeremy Kitchen wrote: I wouldn't say never. If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could always send the notification back to the sender using the username supplied during the SMTP authentication process. After authentication has

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jay Lee
Steven Spence wrote: Jeremy Kitchen wrote: I wouldn't say never. If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could always send the notification back to the sender using the username supplied during the SMTP authentication process. After authentication has succedeed of course. :) rejecting

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread John W. Baxter
On 1/6/06 11:40 AM, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with this almost entirely. You should absolutely try to 5xx refuse known-malicious email traffic, or if you have to accept it, silently file it away in a quarantine area for a knowledgeable human to review questionable cases,