Easy way for NT admins to release quarantined items?

[Drew Weaver]

Here is what I envision, I haven't done this yet, but I will be soon.

Make an alias for sendmail in /etc/aliases that calls a script

Something like

Quarantined             /sbin/grabbit.sh

Then, when a NT admin sends an email to quarantined

They could put this in the body

MessageID recipient at whereever.com

Then you could use the unix 'mail' program to automatically email that
message to its intended recipient.

That is how I am going to do it.

The shell script will just have to read input from the email, and I think
I've done something like this before.

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Sevy [mailto:tsevy at EPX.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:20 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: OT: Easy way for NT admins to release quarantined items?

We have a MailScanner system running on RH9, sendmail, spamassassin.  Works
very very well.

In order to deploy this, we need to find an easy way for our NT admins to
release items that have been quarantined by MailScanner.

I am aware of where the files reside, and that there will be a q- and d-
file that go together.

Other than giving them a mapped drive via Samba & having them copy & paste
the files, can anyone recommend a working solution that would make it easy
for these non-*nix type admins to release queued items?