Logwatch being marked as virus

[Julian Field]

Absolutely agreed. What would I do without you guys?!

On 17/08/2009 21:21, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
> This can be dangerous.
>
> If the host itself has a webmail service, or an exploitable form, the 
> server won't scan messages sent from the compromised system.
>
> Perhaps a two-factor system, like From:127.0.0.1 and 
> From:mailwatch at myserver or somesuch, would be better, don't you think?
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Jules Field wrote:
>
>> A sender can set the sender address to anything they like, it has no 
>> effect on the delivery of the message.
>> So don't do this, do it by IP address, such as
>> From: 127.0.0.1 no
>> so you don't scan mail originating from the localhost itself.
>

Jules

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