[Mimedefang] Best method of dealing with automatic - propagat ionvirus mails

[Clayton, Nik [IT]]

> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:dfs at roaringpenguin.com]
> There are basically four options for dealing with a virus:

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You left out my preference.

  5.  Accept the message.  For every part that contains a virus, replace
      the part with text akin to "A virus was found here.  Please contact
      the original sender to arrange to receive the information through
      other channels if it's important to you.", and adjust the MIME type
      as necessary.

Avoids spamming the sender with notification messages (which is especially
important if the sender is a mailing list, or may be forged), and lets the
recipient decide what to do.

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