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RE: JetStream bill for a several thousand dollars

From: Regan Murphy <regan.murphy_at_oasystems.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:17:28 +1300
Message-ID: <A4C042FF77ABFA4BAAF465910AA06B2B58C0B1@sabre.oasystems.co.nz>

> > I received 60MB of emails yesterday with the microsoft
> security patch
> > virus on it. I can only screen for the virii once I
> receive the mail
> > items and most of the senders are unknown to us due to the way the
> > virus works scouring emails, web and newsgroups for email
> addresses.
> > I'm glad I'm not running my company on jetstream anymore.
> There is no
> > way to stop these from coming in. That's 2GB per month if you
> > extrapolate the figures or $12 a day at the 0.20c per MB excess.
>
> mime header check in postfix2 can reject this before it goes
> in :), just a suggestion.

The damn headers, subjects and attachments seem to change on a daily
basis..... Easier to let the anti-virus block them after arriving and
let them take care of the virus signatures.

--
Regan.
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