Outstanding feature/fix requests?

Steen, Glenn Glenn.Steen at AP1.SE
Tue Mar 8 09:44:45 GMT 2005


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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: den 7 mars 2005 23:36
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Outstanding feature/fix requests?
> 
> 
> 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.
Can't one solve it with something like a
From: 127.0.0.1 and From: root no
FormOrTo: default yes
ruleset on Virus Scanning?

-- Glenn

> 
> 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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