Ralf Guenthner wrote: > Guys, it's not quite as stated before here. The headers of that particular > e-mail clearly show that the virus was posted to this mailinglist, it was > not merely a forged from: address. My qmail-scanner quarantined it and is > intelligent enough to recognize the sender is a mailinglist and didn't send > a notification. Great work by the programmer of qmail-scanner.
In general, though, virus scanners should not notify the sender at all (mailing list or not). The majority of viruses these days forge both the From: address and the envelope-sender. Even if the headers aren't forged, notifyiing someone that they have a virus is likely to have little or no effect in most cases. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but if such a notification *is* sent, wouldn't it make more sense to send it to the envelope-sender of the message? I will say that I'm slightly surprised that the list doesn't reject messages from non-members (sorry for the double-post yesterday, btw). ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
