[Mimedefang] Dropping e-mails generated by the Sobig Virus

Jakub Wasielewski wasyl at opoka.org.pl
Sun Aug 24 16:17:01 EDT 2003


Dnia 22/08/2003 12:27:31 -0400, Użytkownik Michael Sofka napisał:

MS> On Friday 22 August 2003 01:50, Jakub Wasielewski wrote:
MS> 
MS> > I  had the same confusion, I thought that action_bounce produces sepa­
MS> > rate e-mail notifying sender. Now I  know  action_bounce  is  *execly*
MS> > what I was looking for.
MS> >
MS> > RB> So yes, action_bounce is much better.  I've already changed my fiilter.
MS> >
MS> > And so did I, thanks to Ole Craig :)
MS> 
MS> No, action action_discard is what you want, at least while Sobig.f
MS> is in the wild.  We've been using action_bounce, and are now
MS> contemplating a switch to _discard, at least until things settle down.
MS> (Likely using a table to decide the action based on virus type).

Agreed, it's no use bouncing messages with fake sender. 

Thanks for advice,

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Jakub Wasielewski



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