Can virus report be in message body instead of in an attachment?

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Thu Apr 22 02:14:20 IST 2004


Hancock, Scott wrote:

> Most of my users and often my peers will not open an attachment if the
> word {Virus?} is in the subject.
>
> The warning in the message body is consistently forwarded to me, for
> example:
>
> Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed
> Warning: (msg-10816-493.html).
> Warning: Please read the "Morgan-Attachment-Warning.txt" attachment(s)
> for more information.
>
> But I often have to request the attachment with virus report.  I also
> think if my users read the attachment text I would get fewer inquiries.
>
> I would welcome a switch for all reports in the message body.

# When a virus or attachment is replaced by a plain-text warning,
# should the warning be in an attachment? If "no" then it will be
# placed in-line. This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Warning Is Attachment = no

>
> I suppose I could modify the inline text.
>
> I search the FAQ and the list for the last year "virus report" looked in
> the conf file too.  Seems like I deserve a flame for asking this but I
> could not find previous posts.  Maybe I'm the only one with such
> paranoid users.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott Hancock
> Morgan Construction Co
>



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