Watermark and User Notification

Donnie D. Quindardo donnieq at quindardonet.net
Fri Jun 13 06:19:19 IST 2008


Message 3EDEA100004C.D62FF from 0.0.0.0 has no (or invalid) watermark or 
sender address

Hmmm. :-)

Donnie D. Quindardo wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is not working.
> 
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
> 
>     Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.rules
> 
> /etc/MailScanner/rules/scan.rules:
> 
>     From:           127.0.0.1/32            no
>     FromOrTo:       default                 yes
> 
> The notification message sent by "Notify Senders" if their attachments 
> are blocked is still being flagged as spam.
> 
> Please advise,
> 
> Don Q.
> 
> 
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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