At 02:59 PM 8/23/2003, you wrote:
At 02:36 PM 8/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:At 09:59 AM 8/23/2003, you wrote:Probably not "good" under normal circumstances, but right now I am doing it onall our servers to cut down on the "bogus" reporting and number of "you sent me a virus" reports that our people have been getting... --and just how does it do that unless the "you sent me a virus" email has a virus in it?it won't meet any of the reasons mailscanner would be activatedHe's trying to cut down on the number of "you sent me a virus" notifications. Since the latest worm is forging the sender address, the people you're sending notifications to probably didn't send you anything, so why notify them? Since the notification doesn't get to the person who's actually infected, but rather it gets to the unfortunate person who's address was used in the forged "From:" field, it's basically bogus.I didn't turn off my postmaster notification, because I want to have some idea as to when things have died down a little, but otherwise I have turned off sender notification to cut down on useless CPU cycles and bandwidth.
I understand what you are saying, but... so far I have received over 6000 notifications from mailscanner, but the address that they say they are from have only gotten about 1000 and none of them are from my server. A few actually have viruses attached to them and they are getting caught, but... how does mailscanner stop the notifications from other peoples servers mail scanners.
It would only work if the viruses are coming from your customers to your mail server. I sat at my customers location for three days and watched the notifications, none came from our server. They were 100% from other servers even if they didn't think so. You know, address as from Administrator, but not our server Administrator if they looked at the actual return address instead of the pretty one.
I am I making sense here? I would like to stop all the notifications going to them. I don't send notifications to anyone from my server as for most of the last year, return addresses have been forged. I don't know I have seen any valid ones in the last year.
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