Watermark and User Notification

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jun 12 21:44:24 IST 2008



Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6-12-2008 1:26 PM Julian Field spake the following:
>>
>>
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>> on 6-12-2008 1:10 PM Julian Field spake the following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Donnie D. Quindardo wrote:
>>>>> - Configure MailScanner to notify users that their attachments 
>>>>> have been  blocked.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Configure MailScanner to use Watermarks and note that messages 
>>>>> that have no sender and no watermark are spam.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Send an e-mail through MailScanner with an attachment that is 
>>>>> banned, perhaps "test.com".
>>>>>
>>>>> - Look in the spam quarantine of MailScanner, the notification 
>>>>> e-mail that is sent to the user is there. That's because it is 
>>>>> sent with an envelope address of <> and does not get a MailScanner 
>>>>> Signature beforehand.
>>>> In which case you just need to use a ruleset to exempt mail from 
>>>> 127.0.0.1 from watermarking checks. Should I do this automatically 
>>>> in the code, or are there situations in which this isn't the 
>>>> desired behaviour?
>>>>
>>>> Jules
>>>>
>>> Does a ruleset on scan messages also cover this, or is watermarking 
>>> outside that catch-all?
>> You don't need to do anything that radical, you just need a ruleset 
>> on the option that controls the checking of watermarks.
>>
>> Jules
>>
> Let me re-phrase this... If you already have a rule in scan messages 
> for mailwatch releases, will it also cover the watermark code?
If the rule is on "Scan Messages" then yes, it will cover everything.

Jules

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