MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Dropoff

[Jason Ede]

It looks fantastic Jules, will definitely download it and have a play.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jules Field
> Sent: 13 June 2010 19:30
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Dropoff
> 
> Thanks for the comment.
> 
> As for integrating it, that counts as 'user front-end interface' in
> MailScanner, which is an area I have never got involved in. So it will
> remain a separate project for the time being, albeit one which
> MailScanner admins might like to install for their users' benefit.
> 
> Jules.
> 
> On 13/06/2010 05:11, Supun Rathnayake wrote:
> > Hi jules,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the interesting tool, very much essential for
> > the obvious reasons that you have explained.
> >
> > This is just an idea, how about integrating this tool with
> MailScanner
> > for quarantine management.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Supun.
> >
> >
> > On 06/12/2010 08:41 PM, Jules Field wrote:
> >> The Scenario:
> >>
> >> You have installed MailScanner at your site to protect all your
> users
> >> and clients from all sorts of dangerous email content.
> >> Okay so far.
> >> But your users need to be able to send large files, executables, and
> >> all sorts of other things that they used to try to send by email.
> >> Some of these are restricted by MailScanner, others (such as large
> >> files) are restricted by your email system's capacity.
> >> And your users also need to be able to receive files from other
> sites
> >> around the world, without having any username/password access to
> your
> >> systems.
> >> And it needs to be secure.
> >>
> >> So your users need to be able to send and receive all sort of files
> >> and email is not the right tool for the job.
> >>
> >> Say "Hello!" to Dropoff.
> >>
> >> This is a simple web-based system where your users can send and
> >> receive files to and from anyone in the world, and yet it can't be
> >> used for public warez or porn sharing.
> >>
> >> Anyone in the world can send files to you (but not to the rest of
> the
> >> world), and your users can send files to anyone in the world. All
> >> uploaded files are scanned for viruses, so it's safe. Authentication
> >> of your users can be done via Active Directory, LDAP, IMAP or a
> >> static file. It's small, light-weight, simple and safe. It's all
> >> written in PHP so you can read the source and add or change features
> >> as you desire.
> >>
> >> Take a look at
> >>             www.dropoff.me
> >> where you can read about it and download it.
> >>
> >> It's entirely free and open source, of course.
> >>
> >> Note: I did not write all of this. Dropoff is my fork of the
> >> "Dropbox" package originally written at the University of Delaware.
> I
> >> have added new features and fixed some bugs. I intend to continue
> >> developing it as needed.
> >>
> >> Let me know what you think!
> >>
> >> Jules
> >>
> 
> Jules
> 
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