Note that the subject says "notify the RECEIVER", not the sender.  But I still 
think it's a bad idea.  If the virus was successfully deleted, why bother the 
intended recipient about it?  The days of real user-to-user emails with an 
added-on infection are also over, for all practical purposes.

But this is getting off topic (if it ever was on topic!)

Pierre Thomson
BIC


-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Guenthner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:30 AM
To: Martin Schr�der
Cc: ML spamassassin
Subject: Re: Notify the receiver of a message containig a virus




Martin Schr�der schrieb:

> On 2004-06-28 15:31:47 +0100, Mario Gamito wrote:
> 
>>I'd like to when my users receive an e-mail containing a virus, that
>>they are notified with an e-mail.
> 
> 
> Any virus scanner should be able to do that.
> 
> HTH. HAND.
>         Martin

I absolutely recommend not doing this! All the current mail worms use 
spoofed sender addresses anyway so you will just add to the Net's 
background noise and/or end up with undeliverable mails in your outgoing 
queue. And think of all the folks your mails would bother who never even 
sent you an e-mail. Users here get confused by this sort of stuff all 
the time -and then ask me about it for the umpteenth time... The days 
when these notifications made sense are definitely over!

Regards
Ralf G.


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