blocked attachment message for certain file attachments

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 3 18:06:31 GMT 2004


I don't think you can do more than switch off "Deliver Cleaned Messages"
(though you can switch it off for some users while it being on for other
users, using a ruleset).

At 17:49 03/03/2004, you wrote:
>That setting will prevent MailScanner from sending Blocked Attachment
>messages to the recipient? I'm not talking about the sender of the
>blocked attachment. I'm talking about the intended recipient. Just
>wanted to be clear about this.
>
>Thanks,
>Rod
>
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>At 15:06 03/03/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>Rodney Green wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello. Is it possible to prevent MailScanner from sending a "Blocked
>>>>Attachment" message to a recipient when the file attachment that was
>>>>blocked was say, a pif file? There's no reason to send a pif file
>>>>therefore I would like the users not even notified about receiving and
>>>>blocking it.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Rod
>>>
>>>
>>>Great idea. I would agree, the definite viruses (pif, scr, etc) should
>>>have an option to turn on/off notifications. They only cause more
>>>questions.
>>
>>
>>You can already effectively do this with the setting
>>Notify Senders Of Blocked Filenames Or Filetypes = no
>>
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>
>--
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>
>-Mad Scientist

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