Special mail handling

[Julian Field]

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Garry Glendown wrote:

> Garry Glendown wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> a customer of our came forward with some special wishes for their mail
>> handling. We are currently migrating them from Tobit David server on
>> Novell to a Linux based Open Exchange, with MailScanner taking care of
>> virus/spam filtering.
>>
>> The old system (through a plugin/addon) had the possibility of special
>> handling of large emails - when an email would contain an unpacked
>> attachment, the plugin would zip the file. Also, from a certain size,
>> the mail (both incoming and outgoing) is held until released for
>> mailing.
>>
>> Is it possible to implement something like this with MailScanner, or
>> some other tool?
>
>
> Nobody?
>
> I checked the docs/config files some more, but are at a loss as they
> don't seem to be too detailed ...
>
> One thing, the Maximum Message Size or Attachment Size could probably be
> used to block the messages, but I would require them not just to be
> blocked, but also a notification to be sent to an admin account ... (and
> of course need an easy [=GUI] way of releasing th message if OK; No, not
> for me, but can't require the customer to teach several people on how to
> use a Unix shell)
>
> The other option is probably using the custom functions, but again, the
> documentation I found is not really that helpful ... also, I'd rather
> program something in C than Perl ... ;)

MailScanner can't do this at the moment. It is quite possible it could
be done with a Custom Function, but it wouldn't be trivial to write.

I have a policy that MailScanner doesn't mess with a message more than
it really has to.

I will look into implementing it, as it is a good idea! Just not one
that anyone much has asked for before.

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