Human factors... --- Next version

Richard Brookhuis richard at BROOKHUIS.ATH.CX
Fri Dec 7 13:45:08 GMT 2001


CSAV support is already done...
I'm using CSAV at my work and I made a patch for mailscanner, which I
recently sent to mr. Field.

Scott Farrell wrote:

> I'd like to help out on both the CA innoculateIT support, and support
> for spamAssassin.
>
> Let me know how I can help.
>
> regards
> Scott Farrell
>
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>
> *Julian Field <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>*
> Sent by: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>
> 07/12/2001 10:17 PM
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>
>         To:        MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Human factors... --- Next version
>
>
> At 18:23 05/12/2001, you wrote:
> >Inline Text Warning = Warning: This message has had one or more viruses
> >removed by the University of Strathclyde Email Scanning System.  Please
> >read the "VirusWarning.txt" attachment(s) for more information.  Contact
> >the IT Services Helpdesk on the usual number to check the authenticity of
> >this message.
>
> I have just implemented support for multi-line "Inline Text Warning" and
> "Inline HTML Warning" messages.
>
> >I would like to be able to configure the name of the attachment with the
> >warning in it, however ...
>
> Just implemented that, too.
>
> Changes for the next version include:
>         Support for Command (CSAV) virus scanner
>         Support for Inoculate-IT virus scanner
>         Changes to debug logging to quieten down syslog
>         Support for using Sophos's built-in (but undocumented) TNEF
> decoding to improve reliability of scanning TNEF attachments from MS
> Outlook
>         Multi-line inline message warnings
>         Configurable "VirusWarning.txt" filename
>
> Other changes planned include:
>         Support for other virus scanners (if I can find them)
>         Support for SpamAssassin spam detection
>         Support for list of local domain names from which we will never
> send cleaned up messages, just warn the sender instead. This saves face if
> you are scanning outgoing mail and have an internal outbreak of a mail
> worm
> that got in via some non-MailScanner route.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ
>
>



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