Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: >>> Because 99% of the time, end-users are complete morons who couldn't >>> find their own butts with both hands, a funnel, and a roadmap. The >>> vast majority of them can't handle sorting based on tagging criteria. >> >> This is why I am curious. Trying to get users to log into a different >> system to check the quarantine has never yielded good results in my >> mind. Sorting it into a folder they can check on their mail client of >> choice always seems to work, they understand it, etc. >> >> That's why I question the value of server-side quarantine. > > In my situation, I don't control (or even have access to) end users' > machines. This is an ISP environment. These people don't know *how* to > check a folder on their mail client, and for my organization to ask them > to do so would be too much for most of these people.
Same here (ISP). The gotcha is that asking them to log into another website always creates a complaint. Reminding them to look in their Junk folder is easy pie ;-) >> going to take over/fork a SQL-db editing tool, and am tempting to drop >> all support for quarantine in that. > > What tool is it? amavisnewsql. It's got a lot of redundant and non-optimal code (wide open joins, etc) and I've been implementing a lot of fixes to it. So many that I might as well take over, given no maintainer response for the last 2 years on this project. That said, I'm tempted to rip out all of the quarantine code because I just don't see the value of it, and it would make the code base much easier to manage. So I was trying to figure out who would care... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
