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Re: [OT] Recipient notification

From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 16:40:11 CST


Matt Fretwell wrote:
> mouss wrote:
>
>
>>- a message is sent to the recipient with a URL to click to retrieve the
>>message
>
>
> The deciding factor was purely that there isn't a webserver of any kind
> running on the machine. There is a MTA installed though :)
>

that's indeed a good reason...

>
>
>>- once he clicks, he can choose to release the original message (of
>>course, you must make sure this will send the message without filtering)
>>he can also choose to just delete the message.
>
>
> If no release request is received, the quarantines are deleted after a
> certain amount of time by periodical cleaning.
>

There's an issue here though. why would a user prefer to get a
notification instead of just getting the spam message?

with a webserver, you can send a digest (periodically) instead of a
notification for every quarantined message.