Tagging virus

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Nov 30 12:24:00 GMT 2004


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No it is not possible, sorry.

Robin, Rob wrote:

>All,
>
>        I search the archive w/ 'tag virus' 'virus tag', don't really find anything relevant.
>
>        I read through the .conf file, couldn't find anything. Chances are the answer is 'no', I am asking for the
>confirmation here. Or perhaps, I missed something in the config file.
>
>        Since virus scanner is not without false positive rate, however small it may be, it would be nice for me to simply tag the mails w/ just the subject line "{Virus?}" w/ the attachment intact. I am aware that there is a potential risk of software email client bug that can make such tagging ineffectual, I just would like to offer it to the customers. I am also very aware that some people just couldn't resist opening up the attachment :-) and need to protect themselves from themselves.
>
>        Right now, I have 'silently discard', 'tag and remove the attachment' option. I would like to add the option of 'tag while leaving the attachment intact'. I am extremely conservative in not losing any potential emails or benign attachments and thus see that the third choice might be preferable to some customers.
>
>        Is 'tagging w/o removing the attachment' supported in MailScanner ?
>
>        Please take my question as a strictly technical one not a policy one :-).
>
>

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