Shannon, The question you may want to propose to your users who want notification is: How many virus infected messages contain legitimate information? Answer: none. They are usually virus generated messages and are totally meaningless. So what I do is turn off notifications then send out monthly reports to each user summarizing how many messages were stopped and what type of viruses were stopped. This way they know what our service is doing for them and they are not plagued by false notifications that are meaningless. I generate the report from the /var/qmail/qmailscan/mailstats.csv file that Q-S generates.
--- Ed Henderson, Managing Partner Certainty Tech http://www.certainty.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Shannon Werb > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Qmail-scanner-general]RE: --notify options > > > Tom, I agree, but I have users that want to be notified that > they had an > email destined to them and it was stopped for AV reasons, how > would you > propose to answer this request? > > I have no plan to notify the sender, rather to notify the > recips, of course > assuming it is a valid recip address which my system will do > when passed > down the queue... > > Regards, > Shannon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:33 AM > To: Shannon Werb > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: --notify options > > Hi Shannon, > > > the recip does not get the message, is this true? Is there > any way to > > ALWAYS notify a user when a message they had incoming was blocked? > > ***PLEASE*** do not do this! There is a very good reason to NOT send > notification to all: Almost all virii/trojans/worms these days do not > contain the e-mail address of the _real_ sender. Neither my > clients nor I > need or want to be notified that someone else sent you a bad > e-mail. If it > is important to you to notify, take the time to study headers > and notify the > abuse folks of the ISP the real sender is using. > > To the admins (me for one) of busy servers, these false > notifications become > SPAM ... completely meaningless, unwanted and time consuming. > > Thanks in advance! > -Tom > > > > > Hi All, > > I have qmail-scanner up with clamdscan and am quite happy > with it. I > > have been playing around with the notification features of > > qmail-scanner when a message is stopped. > > > > I see the option for recips in the notify area, but am > unclear on when > > it triggers the notification, it looks as though if my > clamdscan stops > > it then the recip does not get the message, is this true? Is there > > any way to ALWAYS notify a user when a message they had incoming was > blocked? > > > > Related to this, I do like the notification message, but is > it at all > > customizable? > > > > Best Regards, > > Shannon > > http://www.battcave.com/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux > > tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo > > technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > > > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Qmail-scanner-general mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Qmail-scanner-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
