notification feature suggestion
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Mar 6 11:11:30 GMT 2004
I'll have a think about that next week. No promises. After last week I am
trying to take it easy this weekend and not do too much. Fell asleep
half-way through eating dinner last night, woke up with a mouthful of food.
Get the feeling my brain is trying to tell me something :-)
At 19:30 05/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In dealing with the current virus outbreak, I've been thinking about a
>feature that I really miss from my old days with Amavis-ng. I currently
>have MailScanner sending notices to the system administrator
> (Send Notices = yes)
>every time it finds a virus, which is helpful in my case.
>What I miss from Amavis is that the notification doesn't say what
>actually happened to the message - e.g. "QUARANTINED and NOT DELIVERED",
>or "DELIVERED TO xxxxx at example.com", or "DELETED", or "CLEANED and
>DELIVERED", etc.
>
>With the many possibilities for rulesets affecting what happens to a
>message, it can be confusing to see "file.exe contains worm.something"
>but not know whether the message was delivered, not delivered, quarantined,
>attachment file.exe removed, etc. In other words - what MailScanner did
>to the message. Currently there's no way that I know of to get this
>information. Am I missing something, or could this feature be added?
>
>Thanks.
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