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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] ezmlm has passed on a virus to me


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:48:14AM -0600, Ron Catterall wrote:
> I received the following from ezmlm about a bounced message.  The message was
> bounced as it contained a virus (see below, some deleted to inactivate the
> virus) If a message has been bounced as containing a virus, it is hardly
> polite to wrap it up inside another email and make sure it gets delivered.
> However no harm resulted on a Unix box, but quite possibly someone running
> Windows might have received it.

I have a feeling you're, unfortunately, ascribing far too much intelligence to
modern email systems. How should it know what your SMTP reject message means?

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater


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