Gerald Livingston said: > OK -- I'm about to start serving mail for my mom and brother from this > machine via IMAP. They may be using Outlook Express as their client. I > want to do all virus scanning on this side before they read the mail. > Maybe some spam filtering too since my brother was careless with his > address at some point and is getting hammered. > > I did an apt-cache search virus and it came back with quite a few > choices that seem feasible. Any suggestions as to which may be best > suited to my purpose?
I have been using amavis for almost 2 years now. I have been using amavisd+postfix since about April 2002 and it works flawlessly for me. I also have amavis-perl+sendmail and have been runnig that for about a year and half as well. So in short, amavis is a very solid integration package. it does NOT include a virus scanner. The virus scanner I reccomend is Sophos, though I do not believe they sell to consumers. I also use Mcafee, which is pretty expensive and very hard to purchase(took me about a week to track someone down at NAI that knew what Mcafee/Linux was). KAV is cheaper, and also quite good, though at the time of my investigations(almost 2 years ago) the reason I did not go with them is their technical support structure wasn't very good(all they had was an email address in eastern europe, no phone#), and they didn't have a U.S. reseller (accoridng to their Australian reseller). Amavis supports about a dozen different virus scanners though(and you can use combonations of scanners simultaneously). It also supports Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim(older versions support qmail as well). amavis has a great user support list(amavis-user). With helpful people on there(I used to be on there till I was laid off). The developers are very friendly & helpful. I would first investigate the virus software packages though, the commercial scanners are still pretty much the best out there(getting signatures faster mostly). Or perhaps you can talk your employer into purchasing Sophos, Sophos' license agreement includes freedom to use Sophos Antivirus software by any employee of the company on any platform(they support about a dozen platforms). Which I thought was a HUGE plus. Updating both Mcafee/Linux and Sophos/Linux is very easy & scriptable. Mcafee's drawbacks IMO are the updates are BIG, they don't come out with updates very fast(can be hours or days after Sophos), and the scanner itself is just a port, they don't put much work into it, and their sales staff isn't educated on it. Why are big updates a downside? Last year, when there was a LARGE virus outbreak(I forgot the virus name), I went to update my scanners, Sophos had a 15kb update(.zip) which downloaded in about 10 seconds (even Sophos was dogged down), Mcafee had a 2MB update which took about an HOUR to download. Mcafee does not have any special site for their corp customers(at least they never told me of one), so your fighting with everyone else for bandwidth on ftp.nai.com if you want more detailled info I can provide it, email me offlist: aphro .at. aphroland .dot. org as I haven't been following debian-user for the past few days and mail for this account goes to a different IMAP folder. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
