Feature, maybe misfeature

[Julian Field]

At 15:15 11/09/2002, you wrote:
>I am wondering if it would be helpful for anyone else to have spams sent to a
>different directory than viruses?
>
>I am searching for a way to put spam that we don't deliver into user's mail
>accounts. I think a seperate dir might make this easier only because I don't
>want to put mail containing viruses in their mail account.

That would normally involve hairy file locking over NFS, which I certainly
am not prepared to get into. So "sorry" on that one.

>Also, I would love to be able to scan all outgoing mail but only selected
>incoming mail. The reason is that I would like to try and protect the rest of
>the interent from all my virused users but require the people on my system to
>pay to be protected. This may seem backwards but I have to recoup the cost of
>the virus engines from somewhere. Does anyone else think this would be good
>or am I off my rocker?

The new version can do that already.
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