[Mimedefang] mimedefang-filter(5) and action_bounce()

[Michael Faurot]

With regard to all the virus activity of late I've been trying to figure
out what's the right thing to do when my SMTP gateway detects a virus.

I 'get' the concept that using something like action_notify_sender() is
not a good idea because the From: header is usually faked anyway, plus
the added traffic this generates etc.  Never did that anyway.  However I
have been using action_bounce().  

I happened to be reading mimedefang-filter(5) (from the MD v2.39
distribution) today and was looking at the section for action_bounce()
and noticed this paragraph:


              WARNING:  action_bounce()  may  generate   spurious
              bounce  messages  if  the  sender address is faked.
              This  is  a  particular   problem   with   viruses.
              However, we believe that on balance, it's better to
              bounce a virus than to silently discard  it.   It's
              almost never a good idea to hide a problem.


Regarding those last two sentences--is action_bounce() still a good
idea when dealing with a detected virus?