Feature request

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 15 15:06:25 IST 2003


You can do this with MCP. See www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/mcp
You will need SpamAssassin 2.60rc4 or else it won't work. You won't need my
SpamAssassin patch to do what you want.

It would actually be a very good example of something useful you can do
with MCP so I would like to know how you get on.

At 10:42 15/09/2003, you wrote:
>Can I do a feature request for MailScanner (actually I made this request
>already a long time ago, but think there wasn't enough interest or time
>for it at the time): to kill off the status messages
>
>Unfortunately MS Exchange is *very* persistent in happily sending out
>privacy sensitive status messages which cannot be disabled.
>
>Examples are:
>-read receipt: your message to xxx was read by Jones on 12-sep-03 at 18:00
>-not read: Your message to xxx ws deleted without being read on Mon, 15
>Sep 2003 11:28:53 +0200
>
>-delivery status notifications : your message was successfully delivered
>to xxx on xxx (very nice and handy feature for spammers)
>
>These messages that exchange sends out, *really* piss me off, i don't want
>anybody to know who reads which message when without our authorization!!
>
>It's immensely embarrasing when somebody in our organization doesn't want
>to be disturbed and the secretary tells people on the phone that the
>person is not in office and M$ Exchange is confirming that he/she is
>reading her mail. You cannot even see from the client that these messages
>are being sent.
>
>In Office XP there is a little better control over this, supposedly it is
>possible to turn the read receipt off, but this is not possible with
>Office 2000.
>
>I've tried all sorts of ways to suppress these messages, sendmail rules on
>subject (which only catches 80% because M$ Exchange replies in the
>character set the original message was sent, and this bypasses the rules),
>I've tried installing Microgarden Outlook tools, they catch only about 50%
>of these messages.
>
>I think this would be a great feature to secure privacy for people that
>must use M$ Exchange.

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