Re: Virus Checking on Firewall
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Chad Morgan wrote:
> I was wondering what the best way (if any) of stopping email viruses
> through a firewall.
Put your virus scanner there...
> I'm trying to see if
> a) there is a way to scan all files that pass through the firewall
sendmail has a Mail FILTER (milter) capability that easily interfaces
with the likes of amavis, or home written tools (even in perl).
These tools can scan/convert/reject based upon header and/or body
content.
> b) possibly block out certain types of files but I don't really like
> this idea because it will block out legitimate attachments too.
Agreed, I disfavour content type (for the most part)
> c) if anyone has a better idea.
>
> We have about 25 users that receive email from several different
> accounts on different servers so a mail server solution that scans
> attachments won't work for us.
Fetchmail -> procmail or fetchmail -> sendmail ?
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Rick Nelson
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