System administrator notices

[Rick Cooper]

The attached MessageBatch.pm patch seems to work. It will generate subject
lines like:

        Virus Detected: Bad File Name Detected: Other Bad Content Detected

for a message(s) that contain all of the above, or just the appropriate
"Detected" string for a single problem

and the first line of the message changes to:

The following e-mails were found to have: Virus Detected: Bad File Name
Detected: Other Bad Content Detected

It won't repeat the "Detected" string, if multiple messages have the same
problem, in either the subject or the first line of the notice

along with the patch add the following lines to the bottom of
/opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/en/languages.conf ( for default string) and
your appropriate language file (translated). This is **important**! I didn't
bother with a patch for something so simple.

NoticeVirus = Virus Detected
NoticeFileName = Bad File Name Detected
NoticeOther = Other Bad Content Detected
NoticePrefix = The following e-mails were found to have


You should now see the actual problem(s) in the admin warning subject and
body

If Julian likes/approves, feel free to add it to the distribution or modify
as you desire.

I tested the patch against MailScanner-4.29.3, BTW

Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:56 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: System administrator notices
>
>
> Not easily, no. One notice is sent for each batch of messages, not 1 per
> message. So you are likely to have a whole bunch of different report types
> in each notice.
>
> At 11:49 31/03/2004, you wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have different subject lines in
> >administrator warnings.
> >
> >At present all notice subjects have "Warning: E-mail viruses detected".
> >This makes it very difficult to see what files are blocked by attachment
> >and what is being detected as a virus.
> >
> >Having the subject changed for filename blocks would enable us to quickly
> >identify undetected viruses that are stopped due to filename checks.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Dean
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
>
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