Per-domain scanning control

Gene & Mary LeDuc leduc at CTS.COM
Wed Jan 23 02:10:58 GMT 2002


I wouldn't have much use for per-domain scanning, but then I only have 2
domains that I collect mail for.

What I'd _really_ like is an option to send virus alerts back to the remote
(originating) mail server's postmaster (in addition to the sender).  I fell
in love with this feature when I was trying out the sophos e-mail scanner.
Several of our lists were getting fire-hosed by a clueless soul with sircam
and a verizon broadband connection.  The user's e-mail account was locked
because it was full, so alerts sent to the user were bouncing.  In addition
to the wasted alerts to the sender, though, the scanner sent several hundred
sircam alerts back to the postmaster at verizon.net.  I'm sure it was the
barrage of auto-alerts to them that finally got them to do something about
the offender.

At 03:15 PM 1/22/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>What's the general level of interest in a feature whereby you could have a
>file listing which domains get virus-scanned, and only scan messages
>destined for one of those domains. All other domains would not be
>virus-scanned.
>
>Spam detection would be unaffected by this.
>--
>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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