[Mimedefang] return action_discard()

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Mon Feb 2 15:23:30 EST 2004


Network Guy said:

> Anyway, I would like to send users some sort of notification that a virus
> email was deleted.  I currently discard those emails and was thinking that
> some sort of positive reinforcement to the user would be a good thing.
>
Dont' do it.
You will annoy the user when they get 300 virus notification messages in
their mailbox.

No way of knowing if the sender or recipient are forged.
The default mimedefang is to disable notification if a virus is detected,
for exactly this reason.


-- 
Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana



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