[DRBD-user] [off-topic] Virus!? ... what are we going to do about spam and viruses on this list?

Federico Sevilla III jijo at free.net.ph
Wed Jul 14 04:09:08 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:44:32PM +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> what the $&%? ...
> NetSky on drbd-users?
...
> ----- Forwarded message from jijo at free.net.ph -----
...
> Received: from lists.linbit.com (node-c-64a2.a2000.nl [62.194.100.162])
> 	by mail.linbit.com (LINBIT Mail Daemon) with ESMTP id 23D6F142F9
> 	for <drbd-user at lists.linbit.com>; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:06:32 +0200 (CEST)
> From: jijo at free.net.ph

And spoofing my email address, too! Grr. (For whatever it's worth, I
definitely don't use node-c-64a2.a2000.nl... and .nl is geographically
very far away from .ph).

> Philipp, can you block attachments that are not of type
> {explicitly allowed set},
> where that set might be
>  plain text, gpg signatures, gzip ?
> 
> or what are we going to do about that?

On all email servers I administrate I use AMaViS (via the amavisd-new
package in Debian) with SpamAssassin and ClamAV. This combination has
been very effective in reducing the amount of UCE and viruses that get
through (I didn't see the original virus message, it was filtered by our
scanner). System load is acceptable. Maybe linbit.com can consider
implementing this?

 --> Jijo

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