Notifications?

[Julian Field]

If someone else wants to write it, I'll happily add some extra logging for
them to use.

At 15:49 08/08/2003, you wrote:
>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"...

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Julian Field
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