Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:59:47 +0200 (CEST)
Terje Fåberg <terje_fb@yahoo.no> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a nice eMail server here, which servers mail to
> about ten users using cyrus-imapd. Amavis is scanning
> all incoming and outgoing mail for over about a year
> now.
>
> I've been quite happy with this until yesterday, when
> one user encountered quite an old mail containing the
> famous love letter. The beast didn't really spread,
> but I'm a little bit concerned about other potentially
> dangerous viruses within my system.
>
> I tried different scanners on imap boxes containing
> the love letter, but no one of these was able to find
> the (base64-)encoded virus in the mail.
>
> And that's where I'm standing right now: I have a few
> gigabytes of emails and no clue whether there are any
> virii in them. And neither do I have a clue how to
> solve this problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ha det godt,
> Terje
I haven't investigated any further than checking "apt-cache show
clamav" but you may want to check it out. Says it scans archives etc.
for virii so I'm assuming it is something you can run against the files
in a filesystem (maildir). I have courier imap set up here. If cyrus
buries its mail in a special format then I don't know if this will work.
G
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