Notify the sender, but don't deliver

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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IMHO, removal of this feature is overdue.  It should be zapped in the next
release.  It causes you nothing but pain and grief.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:

>> 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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