Feature request

[Remco Barendse]

Actually, this might indeed be the solution to the problem, provided that
this patch is not looking at any white or black list.

In fact, I think it would be best to implement separate black and white
lists for MCP. Naturally I would like to know when the people we send
e-mail to read their mail, but I don't want them to know when we read
our mail :)

Will it scan the qf/df pair?
I think I will have it scan for the content type line (although they
are not visible in pine) as below:

------_=_NextPart_001_01C37B6B.C7B39430
Content-Type: message/disposition-notification


I need the solution to be rock solid therefore I cannot rely on the text
"was deleted without being read on Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:28:53 +0200"

alone because Exchange seems to be sending out these confirmation in
Spanish/Portugese as well!

Is it possible that I don't have the directory
/etc/MailScanner/mcp
on my system?

Was looking for the example rules or scores.

Thanks!




On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Julian Field
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