Jason Badry wrote:

>I was thinking about this further, and how would I go about having XMail 
>notify the recipient that an email did come through, but it had a virus so 
>was deleted.  Perhaps just send the headers on and no body/attachments.  I 
>just don't want to have mail disappearing if the AV starts acting 
>up.  Similar to my Spam filter, set the subject to something filterable by 
>the client.
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I gave it some thuoght.. It's different than spam in a way that as 
opposed to spam that doesn't really harm your system (Just your brain :) 
), you can't have viruses reaching your clients, even if they're marked 
somehow.

Also, the issue with viruses today isn't someone that's sending his 
friend 3 EXEs and one is accidentally infected with something - It's 
messages whose entire purpose is the virus, and have nothing other than 
the virus and a line that says "Open this document" or whatever. I don't 
want these messages reaching my users, that would just cause confusion, 
especially with the forged From addresses.

Sure, there is that potential 1/10000 message that was sent by a real 
person that accidentally had a virus, and content is lost... But this is 
nothing, in my opinion.. Especially compared to the aforementioned mess 
of allowing the messages auto-created by viruses to move along, even 
without attachments..
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