Outstanding feature/fix requests?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 7 22:35:40 GMT 2005


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Do other people need this as well? It will mean yet another 2
configuration variables (one for spam, one for mcp) and a change to the
current option covering this.

Marcel Blenkers wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>sorry for not making myself clear:
>
>On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Julian Field wrote:
>
>
>
>>Sorry, I do not understand you.
>>
>>
>>
>there is the following option:
>
># When you quarantine an entire message, do you want to store it as
># raw mail queue files (so you can easily send them onto users) or
># as human-readable files (header then body in 1 file)?
>Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
>
>
>This option works for Mails detected as spam and for Mails detected with
>viruses..
>
>I had to set it to no, due to the fact that the Script Quarantine-Report
>needs the spam-Mails not to be 2 queue-files but one Mail.
>
>So, everyone on my system receives the Daily Report and is able to get the
>Spam-Mail if needed.
>
>But, if there is a virus mail, and the user wish to receive this mail, i
>could use the command:
>
>sendmail -toi user at domain < messagefile
>
>Problem with that is the following:
>
>The Mail gets received by sendmail-in, checked with MailScanner again, and
>again it is stated as vrus infected.
>
>If i could set the option
>Quarantine whole message as queue
>
>for spam and virus seperatly, the user could get the daily report again,
>due to the fact that these spam-mails are saved as one file, and, if
>needed, i could post the 2 queue-files with the virus infected mail into
>the sendmail-queue, so the virus infected mail get mailed without scanned
>again.
>
>As i could change the not to scan option int localhost, but as i do send
>mails from shell, i would like to get mails scanned if i do send them from
>shell as ordinary user.
>
>I hope i made myself understood now :)
>
>Greetings
>
>Marcel
>
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