On Aug 11, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Gary V wrote:
Yes, with D_DISCARD there is a potential for loss of mail.
A False Positive means Loss Of Mail, yes.
Not so much a potential as a case of When, and How Much.
Trust me on this, that's why we turned it off in the first place.
In your case the trash bin is simply a quarantine area.
... That is trivially accessible by the customer, either thru IMAP
directly, or webmail, or `cd Maildir/.Trash/cur`... you get the idea.
Other means of Quarantine will probably be harder for Joe Customer to
get to.
... - unless they collectively agree that the potential loss of an
occasional legitimate message is acceptable.
" Like that's ever going to happen.
There will always be someone who channels John Gilmore, just take it
as read.
Especially if it's corporate email.
... while D_BOUNCE or D_REJECT will create them.
... and will almost always result in them being sent to the wrong
people.
It's that last bit that's important.
They'll either get stuck in the queue until they expire, or they'll
be sent to someone with an easy-for-a-computer-to-guess address, or
to someone that the virus-writer doesn't like, or ...; either way,
it's the wrong person. It would be kewl if it could be sent to the
abuse minion of the site that emitted the evil-gram in the first
place, but that seems to be asking too much of currently available
software to get rite.
Aloha mai Nai`a!
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