Excluding Certain Recipients

Ray Gardener R.A.Gardener at SHU.AC.UK
Thu Jan 3 09:04:43 GMT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Excluding Certain Recipients


> At 20:00 02/01/2002, you wrote:
> >Is there a way to make certain users not have their incoming mail
> >scanned?
>
> No.
> People here have asked for that feature too, and I have flatly refused to
> implement it. What happens if they receive a virus, then forward the mail
> onto 50 other people inside your organisation? Slightly negates the point
> of having a virus scanner, doesn't it?

Julian's logic make sense to me - but even though mailscanner doesn't do it
you can of course set up different directors/router and rulesets within Exim
and Sendmail to achieve the same sort of thing.


Regards
> --
> 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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