Enable MCP Bounce, no such thing?

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Julian,

:) I had one of my clients ask me "so if the senders message is blocked, they should know why otherwise they'll think the message successfully went through".

I've implemented MCP scanning for this client, who has used the feature to enable regex for "bad words" which he basically doesn't want to see. f words, p words, c words, you get what I mean, things that are commonly part of adult spam but he's going one step further, if a real person emails him those words (swear words etc) then he doesn't even want to know the email was sent.

I use MailWatch and various SARE rules, so this means mailwatch to also not log the stuff (which I'm able to do quite easily).

So when the MCP rule kicks in and /dev/null's the message, it would be good for the sender to know why their message was rejected/blocked and never sent.

They're a church group btw and I host for a couple of churches which would benefit from the same types of services.

Can you complete the implementation of this feature Julian?

Michael.

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From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 11:19:06 PM
Subject: Re: Enable MCP Bounce, no such thing?


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I have a feeling I decided there wasn't a use for such an option and 
didn't implement it.

Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mailscanner-4.57.6-1
>
> In MailScanner.conf, there's an option:
>
> Enable Spam Bounce 
>
> which allows the bouncing of email to the sender. I'm after this option not for Spam, but for MCP.
>
> The closest I find in MailScanner.conf is:
>
> Bounce MCP As Attachment = yes
>
> but this doesn't work ie. no bounce is sent.
>
> I was expecting an equivalent MCP command like:
>
> Enable MCP Bounce
>
> based on the similarities between the Spam and MCP command set, but no such command exists.
>
> So my question is, if a message is MCP or high scoring MCP and I delete it, how do I organise to notify the sender that their message has been blocked - which is explained in these options:
>
> Recipient MCP Report = %report-dir%/recipient.mcp.report.txt
> Sender MCP Report = %report-dir%/sender.mcp.report.txt
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael.
>
>
>
>
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Jules

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