We have tried several things... this has so far worked the best, except for
the notification code sucks. In fact, we were giving free virus scanning to
customers, but then one got really mad at us for "blocking" their emails
with us and we yanked it. Honestly, I'm getting tired of this thread, and
people who think that these scanners can be configured differently. In
NT/Exchange, they are more or less, all or nothing. All get notified, the
middle being, a single person can get notified (why waste time with that),
and the nothing, no notification at all.
As Giacomo has pointed out, the scanners are seeing the list as the
destination of the email. So, for all intensive purposes, deactivating the
notification will do only two things. Allow a problem to fester, and make
the virus scanning at the exchange server pointless, because notifications
are ways to curb activity by being a pest to a trouble maker. If somebody
is saying the wrong word in a sales pitch, most supervisors, and many techs
I have met will correct them at that moment while they are speaking. All
the notifications are is a form of yo, this is bad, and yo, stop sending me
emails dude, your infected, get yourself cleaned up.
Now, if anybody wants to flame me in this flame war/argument, direct them to
/dev/null...
-Justin
-----Original Message-----
From: Giacomo Mulas [mailto:gmulas_at_ca.astro.it]
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 3:25 PM
To: linux-ipsec_at_freeswan.org
Subject: RE: [Users] It is not funny anymore: VIRUS / WORMS over this
list
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Justin Kreger wrote:
> I am one of four admins of Hermes.wss.net, AKA aristotle.wss.net (no
longer
> up, we have been trying to weed Aristotle out for ages. It is running
Trend
> ScanMail for Exchange 5.5, with it set to notify the source, and the
> destination of the email.
^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the problem: that damned virus scanner sees that the email is
destined to the linux-ipsec_at_freeswan.org recipient and it is so stupid as
to send a notification to it. Now, either that virus scanner can be
configured to never notify to some addresses, notification to _all_
recipients is absolutely absurd and will cause the problems we are all
seeing. I would actually recommend that you use a better virus scanner. I
administer an email server, linux based, it has an open source virus
scanner in place and it never ever spammed any mailing list including this
one. Hint: browse the web and look for a replacement...
Bye
Giacomo
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