don't quarantine silent viruses?

[Randal, Phil]

That is another excellent idea.  I've just scanned the archives and am still
confused as to what the ruleset would be to still quarantine "illegal"
attachments but not quarantine viruses.  I don't have a test box to play on,
alas.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of David Lee
> Sent: 26 May 2004 10:40
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: don't quarantine silent viruses?
>
> On Wed, 26 May 2004, John Wilcock wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 May 2004 10:55:40 +0200, Marcin Rozek wrote:
> > > about 98% of e-mails that stays in our quarantine are copies of
> > > netsky/bagle/etc
> > > - could you please add an option to mailscanner "Don't quarantine
> > > silent viruses"? That would save a lot of disk-space.
> >
> > This can already be done with a ruleset (search the archives) but I
> > agree that this would be such a useful function that it
> might be worth
> > an option of its own.
>
> <just-a-thought>
> I agree with the above idea, but question its "another
> option" solution.
>
> Consider the wider picture of MailScanner.conf overall, and
> the number of questions on this list whose answer contains
> "with a ruleset".  Perhaps we need to push rulesets a bit
> more, and have some default functionality actually using real
> rulesets.
>
> If we agree that that this particular item ("Don't quarantine silent
> viruses") would be a useful default, then rather than yet
> another option, perhaps the answer might be to for the
> default to become "use this ruleset", and for the default
> ruleset to implement "Don't quarantine silent viruses".
>
> Using real rulesets in the default configuration, with real examples,
> would:
> 1. bring rulesets to the attention of people who don't know
> about them; 2. give confidence to those who are timid about
> starting to use them; 3. demonstrate the preferred
> "xxx.rules" naming; 4. etc.
> </just-a-thought>
>
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