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Re: Virus emails



On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:40:26PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     No, it is trivial.  They should not be generating messages in the first
> place even if not spoofed.

There is a problem with false positives, especially if you do something like
filter out all *.exe files.

It is good to do a SMTP level reject, but this is not always possible:

- uucp (i use this)
- secondary my (it is no help if your secondaries dont filter)
- checp isps (pop mailbox)

Greetings
Bernd
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