Stopping MailScanner on a per user basis ...

[GaryP]

We have made the policy.  Every piece of email coming and going through our
systems is scanned.  There's always one in the crowd that is not going to like
it.  I value your advise, however, in version 4.00.07a to please this one
hardheaded user, how?

> 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


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