>One concern I do have with a Linux-based email system is the relative
>inability to do scanning for virii, trojan horses, etc... on the server.
>While server-based scanning is not a replacement for protection at the
>desktop, many companies now insist on it at the mail server as well.
>While there are several products that claim to do this for Exchange, I'm
>not aware of any for Linux. McAffee/Network Associates does have a unix
>flavor of their virus scanner that runs on Linux, so with appropriate
>programming (probably non trivial), it *might* be possible to cobble
>together something that would open incoming mail, expand any attached
>files, scan them, then forward mail that "passes" to the intended
>recipient.
Actually, it probably wouldn't be that hard... The Linux version of
VirusScan is a console-based program, so, as with almost all Unix programs,
it can be incorporated into scripts. I'm not a real mail system guru, so I
don't know where you'd hook it in.
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