Notifications?

[Ken Anderson]

Julian Field wrote:

> You cannot currently do this. Wouldn't it generate an /awful/ lot of mail?

It would. But if it could be a daily (or configurable) digest sent to
the end user of spam quarantined with a nice link to release the
individual emails? That would be nice. I'm sure this has occurred to
others on this list.. Anyone put any work into such a thing?

Other Anti-Spam solutions have this; Postini, active-state's new
anti-spam product - I saw it at linuxworld tuesday - very cool, but I
can't remember the name of the product!

The result would be that the end user wouldn't have to d/l 50-80% {SPAM}
tagged email and filter it locally. The impression by the end user would
be that we were taking care of that for them. :-)

This may not be a MailScanner feature, maybe an addon script or two?
MailScanner could help by writing out a log of what it has quarantined
when and where it has put it. I would expect this could be done with
some simple logging code in MailScanner at the same points it currently
logs quarantine info to the maillog.
Then a perl script run from cron could read the "quarantine log" and
generate emails to end users on a regular basis. Another script could
handle releasing the quarantined email when an end user clicked a link
in the email.

Ken
Pacific.Net


> At 04:51 08/08/2003, you wrote:
>
>> I was reading through the documentation and I stumbled across the actions
>> section for SPAM.  I was playing with the settings and rules files (which
>> make all of our lives easier) when I finally ended up with "store"
>> being the
>> action I opted for SPAM and "delete" for HIGH SPAM.
>>
>> This is working well, (after learning the hard way that quarantine
>> directory
>> has to be owned by postfix:postfix :)) exepct that I don't get
>> notified when
>> a message is received and "stored".  I assume this is by design, however,
>> I'm curious about whether the system can notify AND store the message
>> with a
>> notification such as the one used to notify of "stored" messages that are
>> identified as viruses/filename?
>>
>> I suppose I'm looking for a SPAM equilvalent for the "Stored Virus
>> Message
>> Report" variable that is ONLY sent to the ADMIN identified by "Notices
>> To"...
>>
>> CT
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