Odd Question

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 7 11:29:06 IST 2002


At 22:30 06/08/2002, you wrote:
>In a situation where MailScanner is scanning on a per account basis for
>Spam.. if there are multiple recipients all headed towards the same MX with
>users that have different spam delivery methods (IE.. Some are set to delete
>and some are set to deliver).. the message will be delivered to all
>recipients if even one of the recipients is set to deliver.. (IE.. if there
>are 8 recipients.. 7 set to delete, one to deliver.. the message will be
>delivered)..  I need to see if it's possible to deliver the message to only
>the one person that wants it delivered, and not deliver the remaining 7.

Rather than try to mess with the header files more than I absolutely have
to, the entire message is either wholly delivered, or wholly not delivered.
Therefore the 7 will unfortunately get the spam because the 8th wanted it.
I might rewrite this later, but not right now.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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