[Mimedefang] How do I remove infected attachments before bouncing mail (action_bounce)

Jim Shewmaker jims at zol.com
Fri Jun 6 20:16:01 EDT 2003


Hi,
  While I agree that adding to the traffic in notifications is a problem, my
opinion is that is is temporary necessary for the sake of legit users
(though there may be few), who did send a virus infected message.  Also,
policy wise, I can say "we don't discard anything, we bounce it so the
sender knows they sent something we wouldn't accept"  This does wonders for
those instigating users who are problem children and think a boogie man ate
their joke of the day, homework, or whatever.

  In a week or two, I'll be disabling our bounces entirely, but I feel in
most cases it is valuable initially.  Eventually even drop_with_warning will
be shrugged off anyway by Joe user, so I'm going to a silent running
operation overall.

Jim





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