feature request - FW: Just the notification for spam?

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Wed Jan 21 21:35:25 GMT 2004


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Envoyé : Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:10 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: feature request - FW: Just the notification for spam?
> 
> 
> 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).

I can't tell, I didn't have time to check yet.

Ugo
> 
> 
> >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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