[clamav-users] clamav milter + sendmail, sendmail not reporting reject

[Lyle Giese]

I just reread my message.  Reject is good behavior. Bouncing is not.  At 
least in my opinion.  Replace reject below with bounce and you have my 
correct opinion.

Sorry,

Lyle

On 2/8/22 9:49 AM, Lyle Giese via clamav-users wrote:
> But the reject may NOT be going to the server/service that sent the 
> virus.
>
> You received a bad email from hackeduser at example.com from server 
> mail.badisp.ru
>
> However the mx record for example.com is mail.example.com, not the 
> sending server or ISP.
>
> Now you have annoyed somebody that had nothing to do with the bad 
> email sent.  This is quite common with any bad email.
>
> Lyle Giese
>
> On 2/8/22 3:50 AM, Marc wrote:
>>>> So please explain, why should I not do this, and why I should care 
>>>> about
>>> a server that is delivering a spam message to mine?
>>>
>>> You might not care about the server that sent a virus to you, but you
>>> should care about the *apparent* sender, which has probably nothing to
>>> do with this; so you should not bounce.
>>>
>> That is the problem of the server that is contacting mine. They 
>> should not be relaying such crap to me anyway.
>>
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