on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:09:03PM +1000, Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They have dictated that the system must be able to comply with the
> following rules
> * Mail the sender if the sender is our customer (lookup table)
> * Change the subject line of the original mail
> * Change the body of the text
>
> Trend alone cannot do this - it is very limited in the way it can send
> out the infected alerts, hence my problem.
>
> I am thinking of using libmilter to create a filter which will scan ALL
> email, decide (by the presence/absence of an X header or certain text in
> the body) if it needs to process the email as a virus warning. If it is
> a virus warning, it needs to rewrite the subject and body, then reattach
> the original file and send it to the original receipiant - then decide if
> it needs to warn the sender too.
I would be very careful about going down this path as it leads you to
maintaining all of this - which is fun at first but not for long. I would just
tell the marketing dept what software is available and what each package can
do. They can choose and accept the limitations.
BB
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