Sender not notified ...

[Julian Field]

At 10:04 04/09/2002, you wrote:
>Dear list (and mostly Julian ...)
>   I've seen a strange behaviour in my logs:
>  an email containing the virus W32/HiGuy is catched successfully by
> mcafee/mailscanner, but no notification are sent to the sender... From
>the sendmail log I can see that the "from" address is "<>", so mailscanner
>could not send the virus alert back to the sender (correctly I
>suppose ...)
>Now the question : In the body of the message there is a real from
>address, it's too hard use also this information, almost in the case the
>from address in the smtp protocol is empty ?

Is the "From:" address genuine?
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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