bugtraq - Re: RFC: virus handling

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:59:12 +1300
From: Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@...adise.net.nz>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: Dave Clendenan <dave@...e.clendenan.ca>,
	John Fitzgibbon <fitz@...tz.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: virus handling


> > A bounce should *always* include a MIME attachment of type 
> > message/rfc822-headers which contains the full headers from the original 
> > mail. This makes it relatively easy to check on the receiving side if the 
> > original "Received: from" headers are valid, and simply drop bounces that 
> > relate to messages that were originally sent with forged headers.

> Outstanding idea.  If you (or anyone else on the list) already have a
> tested procmail recipe for this, please share.  If not, let's make one
> and share it around...

Done that:

http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/procmail/virusnotification.rc

As a quick guess, the received: recipe catches 1/2 - 2/3 of all
responses from those idiots, though I'm not recording exactly which
recipe triggers because I don't care which rubbish it is.

Anything can be improved, of course.

Volker

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