Re: [MailServer Notification]To Recipient virus found and action taken.

From: Antony Stone (Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 17:17:33 PDT

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    On Tuesday 01 July 2003 1:10 am, Valdis.Kletnieksat_private wrote:
    
    > On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:54:10 +1000, Russell Coker <russellat_private>  
    said:
    > > Guys, what's going on here?
    > >
    > > Are these messages really originating with you as they claim or are they
    > > getting @wirex.com tacked on the end of the address?
    >
    > About the only thing that would help here is if the virus scanner people
    > got a collective clue and DIDNT sent a "detected a virus" for those viruses
    > known to forge From: fields.
    
    MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) does this quite nicely by having a 
    list of viruses which are known to operate in this way, and not trying to 
    bounce a message back to the apparent sender in such cases.
    
    Antony.
    
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