virus name in postmaster report

[Laramie Combs]

That works great - thanks.

-Laramie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: virus name in postmaster report


> At 18:35 12/11/2002, you wrote:
> >I am from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC (USA) and we are
> >currently using the latest 3.x version of Mailscanner.
> >
> >We love the product, and are impressed with the time and effort that
> >Julian (and others) have obviously put into this.
>
> Thankyou.
>
> >I was wondering if there is a way to get the virus name into the subject
> >of the email that gets sent to "postmaster" when a virus is detected.
>
> If you send all the postmaster notifications to 1 mailbox, then it's dead
> easy to extract them anyway. To get a list of viruses with the number of
> each that has been caught, sorted with most common at the top, just use a
> script like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> fgrep '>>>' Mail/Archive/Viruses | \
> cut -d\' -f2 | \
> sort | \
> uniq -c | \
> sort -nr
>
> This should work fine for Sophos.
>
> >  Thanks for all your hard work Julian.
>
> No worries.
> --
> 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
>