Re: Antivirus for CLI
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 04:26 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> clamav probably will help along with clamav-milter to filter e-mail.
> Lastly, nmh installed for everybody to use because you get out of mbox
> format with that. If clamav finds a virus in someone's mbox file and
> quarrantines that whole file they just lost all of their email. However
> nmh puts each message in its own file and if clamav quarrantines those
> files the user doesn't loose access to all of their e-mail just the
> infected messages. Your mileage will vary.
I don't like clamav for several reasons, but regarding to that email
issue I suspect you're not completely right. I suspect you'll be correct
for MUAs like Thunderbird/Icedove, that probably still use 1 file for
all emails of one "folder". Kmail, Evolution and others nowadays use a
mailbox format, that use a single file for each email.
- Ralf
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