Disable Notifiying of Recipients

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 10 17:24:47 IST 2004


In case you aren't using Silent Viruses much, you can also set
Deliver Cleaned Messages = no
but this will stop the recipients getting any messages from any
restrictions applied my MailScanner.

At 16:32 10/05/2004, you wrote:
>Stephen
>
>from my Mailscanner.conf...
>
># notified (as the sender address is always forged these days anyway),
># but anyone who sends a message that is blocked for other reasons will
># still be notified.
>#
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>Silent Viruses = HTML-IFrame All-Viruses
>
># Still deliver (after cleaning) messages that contained viruses listed
># in the above option ("Silent Viruses") to the recipient?
># Setting this to "yes" is good when you are testing everything, and
># because it shows management that MailScanner is protecting them,
># but it is bad because they have to filter/delete all the incoming virus
># warnings.
>#
># Note: Once you have deployed this into "production" use, you should set
># Note: this option to "no" so you don't bombard thousands of people with
># Note: useless messages they don't want!
>#
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>Still Deliver Silent Viruses = no
>
>assumming a recent mailscanner..
>
>
>
>--
>Martin Hepworth
>Snr Systems Administrator
>Solid State Logic
>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
>Stephen Conway wrote:
>>Good day:
>>
>>We are using Mailscanner with Sendmail, + McAfee A / V and SpamAssasin .  Is
>>there any way to disable the notification that gets sent to the recipient of
>>a virus infected message?  I just want any virus messages to be quarantined
>>and no notices sent to anybody.
>>
>>Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Steve
>>
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