The big question is why send it to the speakeasy account at all? Since you already have a mailserver cleaning up the piles of feces produced by vermin who should be slowly dipped viagra with a pH of around 13, why not just get your mail from there?<br>
<br>Secondly, why not just drop any virus email into the bit bucket? Sending it in any form is just a bad idea.<br><br>Thirdly, tagging is insufficient. Clean the pile of feces off the message if it can't be thrown away. Don't send a virus anywhere but the bit bucket.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sean <<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Odd problem. The account I use for Ale and some other groups<br>
(<a href="http://oppositelock.org" target="_blank">oppositelock.org</a>) is maintained by my son. Earlier today a spammer<br>
sent me an email with one of the common viri attached. The mail<br>
server dutifully tagged the message as infected spam and sent it<br>
along to my Speakeasy account, where Speakeasy saw the virus and<br>
bounced it back to oppositelock,org. Then the two mail servers played<br>
badmitten with the message until it had ballooned to 1.9 Mgb in<br>
a seemingly infinite mail loop. At one point the many copies of this thing<br>
had nearly filled up my allocated disk space at Speakeasy. I'm not sure<br>
how big that is, but I've never been above 15-20% before -- and that only<br>
after being away from a computer for two weeks or more.<br>
<br>
Short term solution at oppositelock is to drop all "bounced" messages into<br>
/dev/null, but what might be a better solution for cutting this kind of<br>
recursive mail loop?<br>
<br>
Sean<br>
<br>
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