MCP suggestions

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:29 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MCP suggestions
> 
> On 11 Jul 2005, at 16:08, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> 
> >
> > Maybe I am misunderstanding the 'importance' or 'function' of MCP.  I
> > remember when I start my admin job and there was Symantec spam
> > filtering
> > setup on the exchange server.  I was like, oh yeah we going to get
> > that
> > spam.  So I started filtering words like sex, pu***, free, and so on.
> > Then it made a little chaos because that did not work and got good
> > emails.  I do not want to do this with MCP, so I was thinking that
> > there
> > might be files for MCP as there are .cf's for rules for spamassassin.
> 
> MCP is done so that it is entirely up to you to add rules that do
> what you want. There are no pre-defined sets of standard rules that
> you can copy. For example, you might want to stop all mail leaving
> your company that contains the name of sensitive projects perhaps.
> 
> If all you are trying to do is to stop porn leaving or entering your
> site, you are probably better off using SpamAssassin and increase the
> score of some of the anti-porn rules.

Some financial institutions are using MCP to check any outgoing emails that
contain strings that look like US social security numbers :)

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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