[vox-tech] the answer to all my virus problems

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On Sat 20 Sep 03,  9:20 PM, Ken Bloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu> said:
> 
> On 2003.09.20 18:39, Rod Roark wrote:
> >On Saturday 20 September 2003 06:22 pm, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:15:32PM -0700, p@dirac.org wrote:
> >> > On Sat 20 Sep 03,  6:15 PM, Ken Herron <kherron@newsguy.com>  
> >said:
> >> > > --On Saturday, September 20, 2003 04:24:56 PM -0700 Rod Roark
> >> > > <rod@sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > >Cool.  I wonder if there's an easy way to get Postfix to
> >> > > >notice these attachments at the front door, and drop the
> >> > > >connection before all 150K or whatever have been received.
> >> > >
> >> > > Well, if the remote end sees the connection drop in mid- 
> >session,
> >it'll
> >> > > typically save the message and try to deliver it again later.  
> >So
> >this
> >> > > feature wouldn't be all that useful.
> >> > > --
> >> > > Ken Herron
> >> >
> >> > why not?
> >> >
> >> > let them huff.  let them puff.  and after 3 days, they'll give up
> >on the
> >> > delivery.
> >> >
> >>
> >> The point being that 3 days of huffing and puffing might end up
> >costing you
> >> more bandwidth than if you just swallow the message :)
> >
> >Well, you get the satisfaction of wasting the sender's
> >bandwidth too.  And for me at least, as a DSL user, incoming
> >bandwidth is cheaper than outgoing.
> >
> >As for the Postfix solution that I actually implemented,
> >it's a bit unclear if the entire message is received, but I
> >suspect it is.  The sender definitely gets closed out with a
> >rejection message, not just a dropped connection.  At least
> >the offending mail is not saved to disk and does not require
> >another pass from procmail or SpamAssassin or whatever.
> 
> Umm, please consider the golden rule when sending reject messages.
> Do not unto others as you would not want done unto you.
> This can go two ways though because you might not want your legit  
> messages silently dropped. You be the judge.

umm, there must be some kind of confusion here.

these messages aren't silently dropped.  they're rejected.  there's a
big difference...

that's why they're called "reject messages".    :-)

pete

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