Auto-notify sender

[Michael Janssen]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, PG wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I have been using the auto-notifying the virus sender for a period
> of time, but stopped recently because from time to time the sender is
> not really the sender, but the email addresses faked by someother
> infected systems. It is really annoying for a sender to receive a lot
> of virus warning when his system is clean. So I turned it off.

use the Viruses To Quietly Delete-Feature in mailscanner.conf for the
Klez-H-Virus, which is known to fake senderaddresses. Maybee also Klez-E.
This setting saved us from many arguments with Linux users ;-)


>
>     Is there any alternative? Can mailscanner be configured to send
> maximumly only ONE warning email per day to each virus senders, so
> that the sender will be informed, but not too annoying?

i want them get annoyed... Otherwise they won't see the total mess
(sending hundreds of viruses to friends and customers a day).

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> Best Regards
> Jason Kwok
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