[TriLUG] Blocking Attachments in Exim/A really wack network admin

[Tanner Lovelace]

David A. Cafaro said the following on 4/9/04 7:09 PM:

> Stopping sending those annoying blocked email messages back to people
> who didn't send the original email due to forged from addresses.  You
> are putting undue burden on everyone by not setting your server up to
> drop these things.  I personally get REALLY annoyed when I get bounces
> from people saying I've sent them a infected file (I run Linux for
> email!).  He is not the Lazy Sysadmin, he is going the extra step for
> his customers to try and stop the deluge hitting them by contacting you.

At the very least you shouldn't be accepting the e-mail then bouncing it.
I'm not sure about exim, but with postfix you can REJECT the e-mail
at SMTP time.  This doesn't send any bounce e-mail at all, but instead just
tells the sending party that you refuse to accept the e-mail.  Alternatively,
postfix will let you just discard the e-mail, but be warned that
silently discarding the e-mail goes against the SMTP spec.

Cheers,
Tanner
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