"OMG YOU SENT TEH VIRUSESS"

[Kevin Miller]

Jason Balicki wrote:
> As an update to this, I received a response today.
> 
> Does anyone have any ammo I can use in response to
> this:
> 
> Begin quote:
> As for the virus notifications, as pointless as it may seem to you,
> it's our company policy to attempt to inform possibly infected systems
> (whether they are forged or not) if they have sent us an infected
> message and/or spam.  This company policy has proven effective on many
> occasions over the past 7 years of having internet capable e-mail.  In
> one such case we alerted a very large public safety organization of a
> virus breakout on their network.
> 
> If our policy is causing grief for your mailing list, let me know
> which software you are using to manage it, I will personally do the
> research to show you how to properly filter out these messages.
> 
> No-where in the RFC for SMTP mail does it cover virus notifications. 
> In fact, the concept of silently deleting messages that could not be
> delivered can be construed as contravening the RFC 1123.  Once an SMTP
> system accepts the message with th 250 (OK) message in response to the
> DATA command, it has the responsibility of delivering the message or
> informing the sender (via return-path or from header).  If you can
> point out a relevant RFC that prohibits these notifications, I will
> officially turn them off.
> End quote.

Can MailScanner still *selectively* bounce spam?  Just flag his messages as
spam, and bounce them back to him!


...Kevin
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