[Mimedefang] Notify recipient?
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Mar 24 09:56:41 EST 2004
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
> Unfortunately for this to work there has to be good antivirus program
> on the server.
Well, yes. It's just designed to stop people from using action_notify_sender
if one of the *_contains_virus functions finds a virus.
> And silent discard violates SMTP RFC...
Yes, it does, but the SMTP RFCs were written a long time ago for a more
friendly environment. In my opinion, silently discarding viruses is OK,
because there are hardly ever any false-positives, and bouncing may do
more harm than good. However, I concede that replying with a 5xx code
is the "proper" thing to do.
Regards,
David.
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