Amish,
I am not an expert on such things, but I have sent along another mail, which contains virus affected emails I have received through / from vsnl servers and if you look at the text file, you will see that vsnl has written that there was a virus in the file and so they have deleted the "login file" (whatever that means).
Please let me know if my analysis the email headers is correct.
Regards Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amish Mehta" amish@ownmail.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:24 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] vsnl & virus scan
First of all I have no idea if VSNL does what 'Saswata Banerjee & Associates' pointed out in his last email to this list.
But I think its not legal to do that(even if email has virus). Because I think email should not be scanned(even if by a 'DUMB' program) without permission of sender or receiver. As most of emails do not have virus and may be official emails and it would be considered as intrusion to someones privacy. Would like others opinion. Thanks.
Amish.
Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
An interesting thing I have noticed recently is that vsnl servers are
scanning outgoing emails for virus affected attachement and deleting
them. I