MailScanner feature request

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 4 18:07:52 IST 2003


At 16:56 04/09/2003, you wrote:
>Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> >Added.
> >I haven't add a new config option for it though, I'm just logging it
> >anyway. It didn't seem worth the overhead of doing a config variable check
> >for every report in every message.
>
>Ah, that's a shame. Part of the reason I made it configurable was so that
>I could tell MailScanner to only log about infected machines on our network,
>to make it easier to get information for our CERT team.

Most people (I suspect) don't need that fine control over logging output
such as this, and every config option I add creates more overhead. So if
it's a line that is likely to get called a lot, I like to keep it as simple
as possible.

But mostly, I was feeling lazy and didn't want to write the docs etc that
are needed for another config option.
Maybe I'll rethink now I'm not in the office (v. hectic there).
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Julian Field
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