Notifications?

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

How about linking this with sql logging. Rather than generate loads of extra
emails and fill logfiles with lots of mail delivery and status messages -
why not log such events to a database and write a few php scrits to allow
users to access their email details to view statistics and to release,
blacklist, or whitelist their own email?

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Anderson [mailto:ka at PACIFIC.NET]
Sent: 08 August 2003 15:40
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
>
>
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