False Positives

There are times when an email based workflow gets really difficult. One of those times is when discussing projects related to spam and malware detection.

  noahm@debian.org
    host stravinsky.debian.org [2001:41b8:202:deb::311:108]
    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
    550-malware detected: Sanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.30934.1.UNOFFICIAL:
    550 message rejected
  submit@bugs.debian.org
    host stravinsky.debian.org [2001:41b8:202:deb::311:108]
    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
    550-malware detected: Sanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.30934.1.UNOFFICIAL:
    550 message rejected

This was, in fact, a false positive. And now, because reportbug doesn’t record outgoing messages locally, I need to retype the whole thing.

(NB. this is not a complaint about the policies deployed on the Debian mail servers; they’d be negligent if they didn’t implement such policies on today’s internet.)

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