Send Notices = maybe?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 11 09:55:35 GMT 2004


Try a procmail rule looking at the contents of the message body.

At 09:56 11/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hmm, in fact, I do read most of them. This is why I want to reduce the
>volume by not getting any postmaster notifications for those virii.
>
>I do want to know about cleaned/infected word or excel documents, e-mails
>that got blocked because of banned html/objects but not all the 'plain'
>virus messages.
>
>It's ok to log them for stats but I'm not making my stats by means
>of counting by hand from postmaster mail box.
>
>I think it would be an idea to lessen the burden on postmaster
>notifications somewhat, but I think the rulesets that somebody else
>suggested on this list will do nicely :)
>
>Thanks for everybody's input!
>
>On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > I like getting all these for my stats. Just set up a filter in your
> > .forward or your email app to put them in a separate mailbox. Surely you
> > don't have time to read them all?
> >
> > At 22:55 10/03/2004, you wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >May i suggest making the Send Notices config option more silent?
> > >I'd like it to report HTML warnings, blocked (zip) files and all the other
> > >stuff that could contain anything important but now Klez, MyDoom and
> > >whatever other viruses.
> > >
> > >Could we make a new option to specify what MS will report to postmaster or
> > >if we chose not to report virii at all apply the same policy here?
> > >
> > >Just a suggestion to reduce the background noise to postmaster a bit :)
> > >
> > >Thanks all!
> >
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