MailScanner is a superb program.  It is trivial to install, needs no 
config changes to sendmail, and it works.  MailScanner is currently 
running on my home server and it found the recent virus sent to this 
mailing list.

It uninfected the attachment, sent me a message what it had done, and sent 
a message to the Postmaster (me!).  Before that it found some other 
attachments from another list and quarintened them.  What more could I 
ask...

Well, there is one thing.  MailScanner depends on the use of a commerical
virus package to operate properly.  Unfortunately, the McAfee or Sophos
packages for use on a mail server are not priced for the home market.  
Sophos quoted me a minimum license for protection of 50 PC's at $750 USD
and McAfee never bothered to return my call.

Gerry

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Tomas Garcia Ferrari wrote:

> > The server doesn't strip attachments.  There are multiple reasons on why
> > it should strip them and there are equally the same number of reasons why
> > it shouldn't strip them.  I unfortunately can't find the origional message
> > so I can not see why it made it through.  We do try to prevent spam, and
> > viruses from making the list.  We obviously missed one and for that I'm
> > sorry.
> 
> I'm checking right now the package mailscanner-2.60-2.i386.rpm (from
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/). Is this recommended?
> 
> Regards,
> Tomás
> 
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