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Originally Posted by greencreeper
That would be a crime ianathuth 
I meant that had I sent a legitimate email with a suspicious attachment, say, then I should be informed if the email is rejected as virus laden, otherwise I'll just assume it arrived and the recipient is ignoring me. And you know what humans are like - "Well he never responded to my email so he can get stuffed" and "Well she said she'd mail me those pics and I haven't got them. That's her with a one star rating in the black book"... |
You're correct of course.
I would assume there would be some situations where any virus check will throw up a false positive, and a legit email would be rejected.
I think though that ntl are just looking at a major problem for their customers, and deciding that it is not acceptable to allow emails with viruses being delivered to their customers. I know for example that if I need to get a file checked by symantec, I use their AV client, and its gets ftp'd away to them without the need to use SMTP, so I know that will be delivered.
I would have hoped that somebody working for tech support could have offered an opinion either way, perhaps a little customer feedback