On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:58:00AM +0200, Arjen Meek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:15:19AM +0200, Michael Renzmann wrote: > > I agree, but I also see no reason to have this discussion arising over > > and over again. Local filtering should do the trick until that moron > > understands that it is a bad idea to automatic ansers to the spoofed > > sender of a virus mail. > > My mailserver runs qmail (actually mailfront for SMTP) and rejects any > message that ClamAV thinks to contain a virus with a "554 Message > refused", which in my opinion is the correct SMTP reply for any > message I don't want on my server (silently dropping the mail seems > like a risky thing to do). No bounce message is sent by my server. > > However, I recieved this from the mailinglist manager: > > Your membership in the mailing list LARTC has been disabled due to > > excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated > > 21-Apr-2005. You will not get any more messages from this list until > > you re-enable your membership. You will receive 3 more reminders like > > this before your membership in the list is deleted. > > Looking at my logs it must be outpost.ds9a.nl actually generating the > bounce message. > > If 554 is not the right reply for such a message, what would be a better > way to indicate that the message is concidered utacceptable by my > server? > If it is the best reply, what should I do to avoid being kicked off the > list because my mail server doesn't say "that's fine with me" when it > gets sent a virus message? I am having the same problem but using debian + exim & clamav > > Sorry for replying to an offtopic thread, but since the virus problem > is apparently known here I figured someone might be able to tell me the > correct way to handle such situations. > > Personally, I think it would be a very good thing for any system that > distributes e-mail, especially one that multiplies it as well like a > mailing list does, to refuse distributing content that is clearly of a > malicious nature, to avoid increasing the size of the problem. > > regards, > Arjen > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list > LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc >
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