Stopping MailScanner on a per user basis ...

[Julian Field]

At 18:26 02/10/2002, you wrote:
>Is there a way to have MailScanner skip users that have requested that none of
>their emails be checked for viruses or spam?

The best to solve this problem is by making an institution policy that all
email will be scanned.
It's all very well, but how do you know that the people who are not having
their mail scanned are not forwarding mail internally to other people? It's
about the easiest way to let viruses in to your organisation!

Once people are used to their mail being scanned, they tend to get more
relaxed about the safety of mail coming to them. After all, every bit of
mail entering the site has already been checked anyway, hasn't it?

I had a couple of people who didn't want their mail scanned, including a
member of senior management. I held my ground and refused. Within about 3
months both had thanked me for saving them from virus/spam attacks.

I should write a faq on this...

P.S. If you really must do this, it is easy in V4. But my advice is DON'T!!!
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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