Notifications?

[Furnish, Trever G]

The activestate product is "PureMessage":
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage/system_requirements.plex

I noted it when someone linked to the associated "Field Guide to Spam" on
slashdot.  Although certainly not complete, that document might be nice to
show to management or others as a quick intro to the complexity of spam
filtering:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PureMessage/Field_Guide_to_Spam/tricks.p
lex

I think the idea to quarantine spam and allow users to release it if they
desire might be a nice, low-admin-overhead way of letting users search for
false positives on their own, but wouldn't it also require splitting
messages before MS sees them?  Otherwise I would expect that there may be
issues with one user releasing a spam expecting it to come only to him and
inadvertantly sending it to other recipients of the original message.  I
really like the idea though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Anderson [mailto:ka at PACIFIC.NET]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:40 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Notifications?
>
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
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> >
> >
>