Yes, I generally agree with your statement, and I plan to offer that as an optional feature (on by default) of what I am building. However there are times that you want to be able to receive all content sent to an email account, infected or not, and there are times when virus definition profiles may get updated, and you want to do a rescan of the content of your message store.
--On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:39 AM -0700 Tim Pushor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would think that virus scanning and attachment blocking should be part > of the MTA. Failing that, it could be sandwitched between MTA and local > delivery agent. > > A user could have contracted the virus before the being scanned using a > poll type method. > > FWIW, I am currently working on getting Virge > (http://www.vanja.com/tools/virge/) virus scanner working with sendmail > and cyrus. > > Tim > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Bacon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Eric Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:08 AM > Subject: Re: Virus Scanning for Cyrus Email Stores > > >> It would likely need a little modification, but amavis >> (http://www.amavis.org) should have most of the functionality you need. >> Amavis works by splitting open RFC822 mail files with MIME aor other >> attachments and running an external virus scanner (such as uvscan from >> McAfee) on them, then reporting what it's done. You'd just need to set >> it up to proceed through the various directories of the user's mailboxes >> scanning all of the numbered files, and then you'd want to modify the >> perl code somewhat so that it responded correctly to an infected file, >> but that should take care of it... >> >> Or, alternately, you could take the more elegant and generic route and > wire >> up amavis using one of the IMAP perl libraries so that it retrieved the >> messages over IMAP and scanned them that way. Probably a little harder, >> but would be much cleaner and more widely usable. >> >> Michael >> >> --On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:43:17 -0500 Eric Larson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi All - >> > >> > I'm about to begin on a project that will probably involve a web >> > interface to a Cyrus message store. As part of this I would like the >> > interface to be able to trigger a virus scan of a particular user's >> > messages, and report the results. >> > >> > Can anyone recommend a virus scanner that would be able to support this >> > functionality? >> > >> > _______________________________________ >> > Eric H. Larson, Ph.D. "Hypothesis Non Fingo" >> > Sr. Programmer >> > INTERACT Multimedia, Inc. >> > http://www.teaminteract.com >> > (732)940-6550 voice >> > (732)940-6540 fax >> > >> > >> > >> >> >>
