On 8/10/2010 12:06 PM, Aldrich, Dak wrote:
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Email issues on campus... Really an issue?
But today, when I responded to them... My mail was rejected by
mx12.mail.msu.edu
mx56.mail.msu.edu
The message I got back said there was a virus found.
That’s funny. There was no file attacked to the email. It was a
simple text reply. I don’t even use HTML formats... I have no need for
them.
Any idea what’s going on that a simple text mail, with no files, is
getting flagged as a virus?
Dak,
We subscribe to an extra set of definitions by a group called
SaneSecurity - http://www.sanesecurity.com/ These are spam/phish/scam
definitions that run inside of ClamAV, our mail systems' virus scanner.
People submit signatures to the group and that generates the
definitions. (Sometimes there are glaring false positives. (One day
someone somewhere submitted ".com", that was a fun morning. We now no
longer subscribe to that particular ruleset.)
In any case, if you need us to see those you can send them to our
postmaster account. But sending them to any @msu.edu address will get
them bounced back to the sender..
./brm
