[SGVLUG] Couldn't send email. Race Conditions?

Jeff Carlson jeff at ultimateevil.org
Sun Dec 3 16:52:54 PST 2006


David Lawyer wrote:
> I only use one -f so as to not retry frozen messages but so as to
> retry all non-frozen messages even if their retry time hasn't been
> reached.  I've tried retrying frozen messages and have never got one
> to go out yet.  The reason has been because an attached message I'm
> sending out contains a virus since it's a copy of a message I received
> with a virus.  So is there a was to get my ISP's server to accept such
> attachments?  I'm sending out such email as evidence that I'm being
> sent virii and it goes to my isp administration for them to complain
> about to the originating isp.

Properly configured AV programs will stop a virus.  At least, that's
what I think they're supposed to do.  All the ones I know of will scan
inside zips and other archive formats.  The only solution is to send an
encrypted message, such as with GPG.  Ask the ISP for a public key with
which to encrypt the content and they will be able to decrypt it on receipt.

That's my best guess.


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