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Re: [COBALT-USERS] MAILSCANNER disable question
- Subject: Re: [COBALT-USERS] MAILSCANNER disable question
- From: wcstaff <wcstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Sep 2 07:36:01 2003
- Organization: webcoast
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> wcstaff wrote:
> > Is there a way to shut off mailscanner sending messages back to the
sender,
> > as well as sending admin a message, notifying of a virus? We get the
> > bounceback for the message reply to the sender and a message from
> > mailscanner, for every potentially bad message. An average of 350
messages
> > every 30 minutes bounce to admin.
> > Thanks
> > Tom
> >
>
> Tom,
>
> It sounds like you need to add the name of the virus to the "Silent
> Viruses" setting in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf. That will turn
> off notifications to the faked sender.
>
> If you're having trouble with SoBig, you may find the viruses are coming
> from a small number of IP addresses you can just drop in /etc/mail/access.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
>
Richard,
It appears I do not have a /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf or
/etc/MailScanner/ directory. Where else may it be? I'm on a raq4.