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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
