RE: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner question

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >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 forgot to mention how we did it - we turned of ALL postmaster
> notified - it's the line:
>
> Notify Local Postmaster = yes
>
>
> change it to:
>
> Notify Local Postmaster = no
>
>
> Once changed, you'll need to restart mailscanner:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner restart
>
> To be fair - do you really need to know about ANY viruses
> inbound?  Alternatively, you can turn it off for a few weeks,
> then put it back.
>
> hth
>
> Greg Hewitt-Long

Hi Greg,
I still can't see a way to do it against just one notification type, I'm not
using web based email this way.

The reason for only turning off one type of notification was so that when a
new worm / virus appeared I would know to be able to go and add it to the
viruses to delete list.

Phil


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