SPAM and virus policy

Because of the amount of junk passing through the Internet via SPAM mail and virus mail we have set up a system which tries to remove as much as possible of this. This page describe how we decide whether an email should be bounched.

Virus policy

By default we reject mail which have attached file(s) with the following filename extensions:

The above file types are rejected per Microsofts own definition of an unsafe file type. For more information please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=291369. If you for some reason have an urge to send a file with one of the above filename extensions you may rename it or compress it with gzip, bzip2, zip or a similar compression tool.

If a virus should slip past one of the above mentioned filters it will be scanned with a virus scanner using a reasonably up to date open source virus definition file.

Finally qmail-virusscan scans attachments for an executable signature common to executable formats often used for distribution of viruses.

SPAM Policy

We try to remove as much SPAM as possible by enforcing the following policy:

If you have questions for this policy please contact us at staff@dotsrc.org.