Number of questions

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Daniel Gercke [mailto:gercke at HNM.DE]
>Envoyé : 11 mars, 2004 07:51
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Number of questions
>
>
>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?

You should ask on MailWatch's list.

Ugo
>
>
>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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