Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:54, Thomas Halahan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just set up a small mail server with exim+fetchmail+courier-imap. In doing
> so, however, I seemed to have opened up a virus threat which was previously
> handled at the workstation where mail was downloaded straight from a pop3
> account on the net. After some investigation is seems that I have the
> following options
>
> 1) Buy IMAP compatible virus software for the Windows work stations - although
> I cannot actually find any.
>
> 2) Buy a comercial email virus scanner, although very few seem to support exim
> which may force a switch to qmail or procmail.
>
> 3) Use a filter like amavis, and a commercial command line scanner which it
> supports.
>
> 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of.
>
> My budget is small, maybe $100.
>
> The following is the only HOWTO I have found
>
> http://www.clues.ltd.uk/howto/debian-sa-fprot-HOWTO.txt
>
> My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply
> antivirus scanning?
Have you taken a look at ClamAV (its free, since you're on a small
budget)? I used it at my previous place of employment, and It worked
very well. If you are using exim4, its trivial to integrate virus
scanning into your ACL config (requires exim4-daemon-heavy).
-davidc
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