Number of questions

[Daniel Gercke]

Hi,

i have just installed mailwatch using version 0.5.1 and following the 
INSTALL instruction. But when i now try to start mailscanner there will 
be a syntax error in CustomConfig.pm line 143
"Global symbol "$WhitelistDir" requires explicit package name"

Did anyone knows why?


Daniel Gercke


Mark Carbonaro schrieb:
> I can only really help with one of these.
> 
> c) Try Mailwatch for MailScanner (http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/) it
> provides all kinds of use stats, reports etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Mathias Koerber
> Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 5:22 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Number of questions
> 
> 
> Upfront: Sorry is these are answered elsewhere. I looked through the 
> FAQ-O-Matic, but
> ithas too many items simply called 'New Item' to be useful for searching...
> unless I really don't understand it's workings..
> 
> I have a few question regarding MailScanner and its setup:
> 
> a) there seem to be only a few was to handle viruses:
>         deliver
>         do not deliver
> 
>    Notifications to an admin are handled separately
> 
>    SPAM on the other hand has a multitude of dispositions
>    deliver, drop, forward etc
> 
>    however, there does not seem to be any way to send a notification
>    of SPAM received to the user and/or admin and separately handle the
>    spam itself in a different fashion.
> 
> Could these options not be aligned such that for either SPAM or VIRUSES one
> can separately decide on
>         delivery
>                 - to the recipient
>                 - to one or more central collection addresses
> 
>         quarantine
>                 - which directory
>                 - in configurable fashion (full, Q-file, only attachments)
> 
>         notification about the fact
>                 - to a central admin address
>                 - to the recipients
>                 - to the sender
> 
> b) rules
> 
> Most configration options which also can be rule-sets only seem to take
> yes/no. It would be nice to  have the above dispositions all available in
> rules, so one can better fine-tune the configuration
> 
> But also, most rules only allow From: and To: as conditions.
> I would like to be able to combine them (thanks for *and* btw), so that I
> can decide the disposition based on
>         From:
>         To:
>         Envelope From:
>         Envelope To:
>         IP address the mail was received on
>         Type/name of virus or SPAM
>         type/name of attachment
> 
> The last would be especially nice in the filename/filetype rules, so that I
> cn decide to allow some filetypes, send notifications on others while
> silently dropping the rest. And handle these wven differently if th mail
> came form my internal IP address (regardless of sender/recipient names)
> etc..
> 
> If any of the above is possible I would appreciate pointers.
> 
> 
> 
> c) Is there a any reporting tool for MailScanner which allows me to
>    generate reports based on MailScanner's activity? I know and use
>    mailscanner-mrtg, but I am more interested in some real reports
>    which could include breakdowns by virus types, domains, recipients
>    etc?
> 
> thanks
> mathias
> 
> Mathias Körber
> Director Technical Services
> Lightspeed Technologies
> mathias at lightspeed.com.sg
> 
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