Maybe virus wrapper should hide path?

[Julian Field]

At 20:42 08/07/2002, you wrote:
>I've noticed that the virus alert messages contain the entire path of the
>virus.  For example:
>
>At Mon Jul  8 15:59:01 2002 the virus scanner said:
>    /opt/mailscanner/var/incoming/g68Jwc328189/Xht.pif  Infection:
>W32/Klez.H at mm
>
>This seems odd to me -- I would think that, in general, it isn't something
>that you'd want/need to pass along to the person getting the virus alert.  In
>fact, I can see it confusing some of our users.  Maybe the wrapper could parse
>out the path?  I think it would make much more sense for user's notifications
>to just look like:
>
>At Mon Jul  8 15:59:01 2002 the virus scanner said:
>    Xht.pif  Infection: W32/Klez.H at mm
>
>...since that makes more sense to users that might get an infected
>attachment.  From their eyes, I think they should just think of it as being IN
>their mail still -- not a file in a filesystem somewhere.

You need to include at least the message ID in the path, or you won't know
where to find the file in the quarantine directories. But I guess I could
remove the path elements before that. Unfortunately it is not trivial to
change, but I will consider it for a future release.
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