- To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy
- From: Alexander Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:46:11 +1100
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:50:09PM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004, Alexander Samad wrote:
> > Why not to the check at DATA command yourself ?
>
> I discard viruses myself, spam I let end users deal with at present --
> aside from basic sanity checks on sender domains.
>
> And it's not just DATA checks. Much of the spam I am sent are for users
> who no longer exist at the primary host, for which a DATA check is of
> course useless (of course, the primary is right to reject those at SMTP
> time, there's nothing I can do about it). I suppose I could compile that
> list myself too.
Why not reject them at the rcpt command again just reject it.
>
> -Mary
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