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232 Editing antivirus notification messages
Modifying notification files
Changing the notification file character set
The notification file includes the
advisory-list
tag with a
char-set
attribute.
You can edit this tag to specify a different character set for notification
messages. For example, to use the Latin 2 character set (ISO 8859-2), which
contains characters for 15 Eastern European languages, you would edit the tag
to appear as follows:
<advisory-list char-set="ISO-8859-2">
For a list of all the languages that use the
ISO 8859
character sets, see:
http://www.czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html .
Note: The Notification.xml file also contains a
content-transfer-encoding
element. However, it is not used. Symantec Mail Security for SMTP chooses the
encoding method (quoted-printable or base64) that results in the shortest
message.
Editing messages in the notification file
The notification messages can be edited. In the XML file, each notification
message is constructed with an
<advisory>
tag. There are several
<advisory>
tags, each containing a block of information, depending on the
disposition of the message.
For example, after Symantec Mail Security for SMTP successfully cleans a
message, it retrieves text from the
cleaned_sentence advisory, shown in the
next example.
Warning: When making changes to the XML file, modify only customizable text.
If you adjust the placement of the variable tags identified by the <t> tag, ensure
that you don’t change the values of the tokens within the tag. Do not modify any
other tags or structures.
To make changes to the text Symantec Mail Security for SMTP inserts for
cleaned messages, only edit the
boldface
text, as shown in the following
example:
<advisory name="cleaned_sentence">
<t name="file_name"/> was infected with the malicious virus <t
name="virus_name"/> and has been cleaned. </advisory>
To view all customizable
<advisory>
elements in the notification file, see the
next section.