Qurantine Phishing?

Scott Silva ssilva at SGVWATER.COM
Tue May 10 17:22:26 IST 2005


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Paul Houselander wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ive just started to look at the phishing detection capabilities in
> MailScanner.
>
> I can see that it adds the "MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
> ......" to the message but wondered if it was possible to just quarantine
> the message so the recipient doesnt get it at all?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
Too many false positives to just dump the message.
I think Julian has just the right balance of usability and
reliability. Unless you have some system for users to release their own
quarantine, you are just adding more work for yourself.

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