Feature, maybe misfeature

[Julian Field]

At 21:29 11/09/2002, you wrote:
> > >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.
> >
>Maybe I was unclear. I didn't mean put the spam directly in a user's
>directory. Just put it in a seperate quarantine dir from the viruses.

The new version already does that. It will save it into a directory (where
yyyymmdd is the date)
         ....quarantine-dir/yyyymmdd/spam
so you can extract the spam for each day very easily.

> > >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.
>cool

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