Last few questions before I go live...

[Ryan Pitt]

Hey Jason,

Jason Williams wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> Im getting ready to go live here with my first mailscanner. I have a
> mix of
> excitement and nervousness. :)
>
> Just wanted to ask a few last questions, see if I can clear up a few
> things
> as well as tweak my settings.
>
> As far as viruses are concerned, anytime MS detects any viruses in
> email, I
> just wanted to have MS completely delete it. No need in delivering at
> all.
> I'm stil debating on the following and was hoping for some feedback:

I just have MailScanner deliver the rest of the message.  What will
happen is that someone will try to email one of your users a file which
is questionable (bad file name etc) and they will be notified by email
that MailScanner caught something. In your scenario instead of getting
the notification send to the sender and recipient, they will get
nothing, which in my mind would alarm users more.  I also changed the
Modify Subjects to be more descriptive.  IE.  "Virus" I changed to
"Virus Removed" etc

>
> - do most people here have emails sent to postmaster when MS receives a
> virus in a email?

I set up a specific email address for this purpose.  This way these
notifications are kept separate from everything else.

>
>
> - do most people here want their users to receive a email when a intended
> email for them contained a virus?

Not sure if I understand this one.  Maybe ties in with 2 questions ago?

>
>
> I know for the first couple of days, weeks for that matter, it will be
> time
> to monitor, tune and tweak the system. But im hoping to not run into any
> significant problems if possible.
>
> Currently, i've been sending emails through the MS server, both a
> combination of viruses (eicar) as well as test spam (GTUBE). It is
> working
> well, as far as I can see. But im looking to try and 'blast' the server
> with quite a few emails at once, to see how the server reacts. Anyone
> have
> a recommendation for that?
>
> Lastly, I wanted to keep track of stats, that will include a variet of
> things. I want virus statistics as well as spam statistics to be included
> as well. Any recommendations on a setup for that?

MailWatch has been good for me
http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/

>
>
> I appreciate the help. I look forward to rolling out my server.

good luck....

Ryan

>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason
>
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