4.33.3: more defaults to change

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 1 08:45:47 IST 2004


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All changed.

Anyone got any comments to the contrary, particularly on the Charset setting?

At 21:35 31/08/2004, you wrote:
>Julian,
>    Whilst on the subject, I would lobby you to change the defaults
>on the following parameters too:
>
>Quarantine Silent Viruses from "yes" to "no".
>
>    Why waste disk space quarantining stuff that is all bogus?
>
>Notices Include Full Headers from "no" to "yes".
>
>    IMHO, a sysadmin can't do much in terms of tracking down information
>    on a message without the full mail headers and the message ID.  So
>    notices without the full mail headers are pretty useless...
>
>Attachment Encoding Charset from "us-ascii" to "ISO-8859-1"
>
>    This one is probably controversial among mailscanner users.
>    Even us Americans have to deal with languages that use accents and
>    that eighth bit, especially in higher education settings.  My charset
>    in both MS and sendmail (DefaultCharSet) have been defined as
>    ISO-8859-1 for a long time with no complaints.  What charsets
>    do other sites use in MS and their MTA, especially non-US sites?
>
>Jeff Earickson
>Colby College
>
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