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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:53:01 +0100, Martin <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

And you can be sure that your software is clever enough to know what is 
or is not forged or filched?

All by itself?  No.  I tell it.  Any virus matching the regex pattern I 
set up in the config file doesn't generate reject notices.  It's as 
simple as that.

If you really want to dig in to how this software works, I suggest you 
do so - it's all free an opensource (GPL'd, I think) - google for 
amavisd-new.  It's powerful stuff, tied in with SpamAssassin.

Manually sending a mail to warn someone known to you to warn them of 
whatever problem is fine, good, commendable and for all good people 
expected.

Sending what is effectively (miss-directed do-gooder) spam to unknown 
strangers is silly and likely an example of your being duped. It adds to 
an exponential growth of the problem symptoms.

Oh, I see.  They can tell the difference between email I type and email 
my server automatically sends.

Since I (the postmaster) am notified whenever my server is sent a virus, 
I can quite easily (and I do) check to see if the virus forges the FROM 
and Return-Path headers.  If it does, I add it to the blacklist so no 
more notifications are sent out.  Admittedly, the first one does go 
out, but I think it is a small price to pay.

Has anybody figured out yet, for sure, if the Return-Path header is 
forged on Swen-generated emails?

-- 
Rob                                |  If not safe,
Email and Jabber:                  |    one can never be free.
     athlonrob at axpr dot net     |
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