dealing with email from "Mydoom" worm

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Fred Yankowski <fred at ontosys.com> wrote:

>> Well, messages recognized by the virus scanner are filter
>> before bogofilter, then ...
>
>What "virus scanner" do you mean? 

We have one on a mail server before ours. It adds a header.

>The procmail recipe that you gave
>near the end of your message?   

No, that is next. Then bogofilter.

>> Anyhow, all the "disabled" viruses and bounces to viruses
>> are taken care of by bogofilter. That really saves a lot.
>
>I don't understand.  Did you mean that they are "taken care of"
>*before* bogofilter, so that bogofilter never sees them?

No, since they pass the virus filter and the above recipe,
bogofilter learned them and recognizes them as spam.

pi