Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner question

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 23 August 2003 08:41, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I know you can disable admin alerts for all viruses picked up, but is it
> >possible to do it for just one virus, i.e this sobigF thing thats hitting
> >hard still.
> >I know I could filter it in Outlook - but with outlook 2000 and multiple
> >accounts it tends to hang with stupid rules in error type messages.
> >
> >This is Bassi's Mailscanner on a Raq4
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Phil
>
> I don't think so - because the quiet deletion option in MailScanner still
> alerts the postmaster.
>
> What MIGHT work, but I haven't verified this, is to use filters on a web
> based email if you have it.
>
> We have openwebmail on our boxes, if you do too, then perhaps setting a
> filter to delete them on the server would work to remove them before you
> collected them , or have them forwarded.  Worth a try...
>
> hth
>
> Greg H-L

Yes, and no.  There is a second option in MailScanner that says "Notify local 
postmaster = yes/no"

Believe the ones you are interested in are:

Deliver To Recipients = no
Notify Senders = no
Action = delete
Notify Local Postmaster = no

Basically these four will 1.  Not deliver the message IF it contained a 
virus/bogus attachment; 2.  not notify the sender; 3. simply delete the 
message; 4. Not send a message to the admin/postmaster that it deleted the 
message.....

Probably not "good" under normal circumstances, but right now I am doing it on 
all our servers to cut down on the "bogus" reporting and number of "you sent 
me a virus" reports that our people have been getting...

-- 
Larry Smith
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