feature request - FW: Just the notification for spam?

[Julian Field]

At 17:01 21/01/2004, you wrote:
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Furnish, Trever G [mailto:TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM]
> > Envoyé : Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:58 AM
> > À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Objet : feature request - FW: Just the notification for spam?
> >
> >
> > No one responded with any suggestions for how to accomplish this in
> > mailscanner, so I'm assuming it's not yet possible.
>
>I've suggested that already, but it has been taken by MailWatch 
>instead.  However, i don't know about the development, but Steve from 
>MailWatch said that he would try to release a new version next 
>week.  Maybe ask on the mailwatch list...

Had forgotten about this. Is implementation in MailWatch okay? (saves me 
duplicating effort).


>Hth
>
>Ugo
>
> >
> > So I'm hoping this will be considered as a feature request. :-)
> >
> > New feature requested:
> > A new "action", recipientnotify, that causes a notification
> > message to be
> > sent to the recipient instead of the original message.  The
> > message file
> > would need to support the common variable interpolations -
> > $report, $from,
> > $subject, $localposter, etc.
> >
> > And the way I'd envision using this new feature:
> > In MailScanner.conf:
> > Spam Actions = store recipientnotify
> >
> > Then, the message sent to the recipient would look something like:
> >
> >
> > ------ Begin recipient message ------
> > Our mail filtering system has blocked a message sent to you
> > from:
> >         <blockquote>$from</blockquote><p>
> >
> > ...with a subject of:
> >         <blockquote>$subject</blockquote><p>
> >
> > If you believe this to be a valid message, please click
> > <a href="http://myserver/release.cgi?messageid=$id">here</a>.
> >
> > The original message will be stored for 7 days.
> > ------ End recipient message ------
> >
> >
> > The linked web page would allow the user to take whatever
> > actions are appropriate for the site - ie sa-learn, release
> > from quarantine, whitelist, whatever.
> >
> > This approach circumvents the need for any user-based authentication
> > and allows for a *very* simple user interface to quarantined mail.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Furnish, Trever G [mailto:TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:46 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Just the notification for spam?
> >
> >
> > Is it still Monday?  I'm drawing a blank on how to do
> > something.  (How) can
> > I configure MS to deliver a notification to the recipient
> > that a message was
> > quarantined, without actually delivering the message, not even as an
> > attachment?
> >
> > I've been asked to send recipients a message that basically
> > says "We blocked
> > a message we think is spam, from Bob, with subject Foo -
> > click here if you
> > think the message wasn't spam."  But the options I have in
> > the config don't
> > seem to allow for that particular set-up.  Can MS do that?
> >
> > I don't want to deliver the original message at all, but I
> > still want to
> > notify the sender that a message was blocked.  Recipients can
> > filter these
> > into a folder and ignore them 99% of the time, but on those
> > occasions when
> > they're expecting a message that doesn't come in, they'd be
> > able to open the
> > spam folder and search for the sender of the missing message,
> > then click a
> > link to release the message.
> >
> > --
> > Trever
> >

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Julian Field
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