Notify the sender, but don't deliver

[Julian Field]

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At 11:59 07/10/2004, you wrote:
>At 12.42 07/10/2004, David Höhn wrote:
>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>Hash: RIPEMD160
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>>Aldo Polli wrote:
>>| Hi,
>>| I'm a new user.
>>|
>>| I would like to know if it's possibile
>>| to notify the sender but don't deliver the email to the recipients
>>when the
>>| scanning find a virus.
>>|
>>Please do NOT do that. 99% of all Virii spoof their From:
>>
>>If you absolutely have to it makes more sense to inform the intended
>>recipient.
>
>
>I agree with you.
>I'm investigating about it
>because someone ask me for that.
>
>Now,  I found the answer (I think)
>
>Deliver Cleaned Messages = no
>Notify Senders = yes
>Notify Senders Of Viruses = yes

Please tell them that this is a terrible idea and will not achieve what 
they think they want. Doing this brings MailScanner into disrepute and 
gives it a very bad name, as you are sending bogus warnings to totally 
innocent people who never sent anything. They then contact me, and I have 
to waste hours of my valuable time telling them that I'm very sorry but 
some very badly maintained copy of MailScanner is sending out this rubbish.

If people persist in doing this, I will simply remove the feature completely.
-- 
Julian Field
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