I'm a MAJOR advocate of turning off those notifications. I can block the viruses, I can block the SPAM, but blocking those damn notifications is a pain.
If you can actually get the sender/recipient notification to work as advertised do let me know. I've just disabled them entirely.
I reported a bug with this quite a while ago that, to my knowledge, has still not been fixed.
ie what I was seeing...
I made up this little table based on my domain settings (only recipient enabled at a server level):
Set
Actual
Sender
Recipient
Sender
Recipient
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
1
0
Ie if neither is flagged the sender still gets it. If sender is flagged both sender and recipient get it, etc
We also sent Vircom a spreadsheet with all of the combinations that were broken back on November 18th, 2003. We reported the following and provided a spreadsheet to Vircom with the various combinations.
� Default notification messages for Attachments and Anti-Virus are not accurate. Virus alert to sender indicates the message has been cleaned and is enclosed as an attachment, but has no attachment. Virus alert to recipient needs to have two versions: one if the clean attachment is attached and one if it is not. The Attachment alerts to both the sender and recipient indicate that the message has been cleaned and is enclosed as an attachment, but neither have an attachment.
� Settings (System -> Domain -> User) for controlling Attachment and Anti-Virus alert notifications to sender and recipient are not working correctly. See attached Excel spreadsheet for details about which combinations of settings are not working correctly. The list does not include all possible combinations and there may be other combinations that do not work correctly. In the spreadsheet, Y means Yes (or enabled), N means No (or disabled), and D means Default (as in the Domain is set to use the System defaults).
Jim Craig
TDE Internet
