Maybe virus wrapper should hide path?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jul 13 16:55:58 IST 2002


I realised it wasn't as hard as I thought. Consider it done (but not tested
yet!).

At 16:15 13/07/2002, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
> > 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.
>
>Well, I was thinking that, if possible, the log and admin copy of the email
>would have the full path -- just the emails that were sent to the sender
>and/or recipient would only have the filename.  Just seems like
>extra/confusing information for them otherwise.  Unfortunately, I've already
>had one not-so-bright person go looking for that path on their machine and
>were confused why they couldn't find it.  :)
>
>In any case, just a suggestion -- thanks for considering it for later
>inclusion.
>
>  - John...

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