Philip S Tellis wrote:
Are you sure it came from me? There is a worm around that sends mails
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- I have never (in my life) sent a .xls or a .pif file via email
To add to that I have never received a .xls or a .pif file from Philip. ;-). Infact from noone in list. But I have one doubt, does mailman scan emails for virus?
Amish.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Amish Mehta wrote:
Infact from noone in list. But I have one doubt, does mailman scan emails for virus?
mailman doesn't. it is a mailing list software. no more, no less. amavis does.
An interesting thing I have noticed recently is that vsnl servers are scanning outgoing emails for virus affected attachement and deleting them. I have got recently, quiet a few messages, which have passed through vsnl (either inwards or outwards), where the main virus affected attachment is deleted, converted into a simple txt file.
Not what you would expect from vsnl, would you ?
Regards Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amish Mehta" amish@ownmail.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:48 PM Subject: Re: IMP -- RE:[ILUG-BOM] Not so Random
Philip S Tellis wrote:
Are you sure it came from me? There is a worm around that sends mails
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- I have never (in my life) sent a .xls or a .pif file via email
To add to that I have never received a .xls or a .pif file from Philip.
;-).
Infact from noone in list. But I have one doubt, does mailman scan emails for virus?
Amish.
On Oct 10, 2002 at 16:33, 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 have got recently, quiet a few messages, which have passed through vsnl (either inwards or outwards), where the main virus affected attachment is deleted, converted into a simple txt file.
It is arguably bad for VSNL to do this. They (probably) mean well, but they are an ISP. They must not interfere with traffic at that level. Drop the message, bounce it, but never ever alter it in that way. They may alter the email headers, perhaps, add:
X-VSNL-Found-Virus: virus file name
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