Mark London schrieb:
Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message file that
contains a virus. Of course, cyrus doesn't know that the message is deleted,
so it still shows that message, albeit it shows up as being from Unknown with
(no subject). The problem i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Irrelevant question. The fact that it could happen is enough. I can't stop
my users going to someone's computer (which has no virus protection) and
connecting to my IMAP server. I have students who will no doubt use the
IMAP server as a filestore when they run out of quot
Bottom line: The virus scanning should be done by your MTA. If you muck
around in user mailboxes, deleting messages willy nilly without letting
Cyrus know, you *will* corrupt users' mailstores, unless you tediously
plan to run reconstruct on a mailbox everytime a virus is found. Unless
your name
On Jan 21 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>> Because (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) lmtpd is not the
>> only way messages can be stored on an IMAP server: eg think of
>> sending a poisoned attachment, which magically ends up in your sent
>> folder.
>
>I don't see the 'elsewhere in this thread' mai
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only people
> using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the server?
I do the virus scanning and spam f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 14:16 -0800 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
How about checking for viruses before mail reaches Cyrus? Such as
with a virus scanner that runs as a milter which sendmail talks to
when it receives mail? Or a similar approach for whatever your chosen
MTA is?
Because (as men
On 21 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> At 14:16 -0800 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>> How about checking for viruses before mail reaches Cyrus? Such as
>> with a virus scanner that runs as a milter which sendmail talks to
>> when it receives mail? Or a similar approach for whatever your
>> cho
At 14:16 -0800 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>How about checking for viruses before mail reaches Cyrus? Such as
>with a virus scanner that runs as a milter which sendmail talks to
>when it receives mail? Or a similar approach for whatever your chosen
>MTA is?
Because (as mentioned elsewhere in this t
At 16:56 -0500 Brian wrote:
>Mark London said:
>
>> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
>> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only
>> people using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the
>> server?
But uvscan is treati
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 16:58 pm, Will Day wrote:
> A short time ago, at a computer terminal not so far away, Mark London wrote:
> >> If you're messing around with the internal data stores of a program, and
> >> then you get upset when the program doesn't work, I'd say that you've
> >> created y
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Alton Tamplin writes:
>Ted Cabeen wrote:
>>Right. Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to
>>this solution? (We were thinking of using this to
Ted Cabeen wrote:
Right. Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to
this solution? (We were thinking of using this to delete old messages from
users spam folders)
If your users all have spam folders named the same or similar
(presumably put there by spam filtering
On 21 Jan 2003, Mark London writes:
>>> Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message
>>> file that contains a virus. ...
>> If you're messing around with the internal data stores of a
>> program, and then you get upset when the program doesn't work, I'd
>> say that you've creat
Mark London said:
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only
> people using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the
> server?
There was a discussion on this last week. Search the
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
You told it to...
> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only people
Yes, you don't let the virus in the server on the first place, using a
content scanni
Mark London wrote:
I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only people
using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the server?
I think most people scanning their mail do so before it is
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Subject: Problem with cyrus and deleting a message with a virus.
> Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message file that
> contains a virus. Of course, cyrus doesn't know that the
On 21 Jan 2003 at 16:31, Mark London wrote:
>
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only
> people using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the
> server?
The only valid way to acc
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ted Cabeen wrote:
> >(Note that you can also rebuild the mailbox with the reconstruct command,
> >but I don't recommend this as a general solution).
>
> Right. Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to
> this solution? (We were thinking of using this
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only people
> using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the server?
If you use sendmail, set up MIMEDe
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob S
iemborski writes:
>On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
>If you're messing around with the internal data stores of a program, and
>then you get upset when the program
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
> alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only people
> using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the server?
Run a scanner as a part of your MT
> > Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message file that
> > contains a virus. Of course, cyrus doesn't know that the message is deleted,
> > so it still shows that message, albeit it shows up as being from Unknown with
> > (no subject). The problem is that this message can't
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark London wrote:
> Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message file that
> contains a virus. Of course, cyrus doesn't know that the message is deleted,
> so it still shows that message, albeit it shows up as being from Unknown with
> (no subject). The pr
Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message file that
contains a virus. Of course, cyrus doesn't know that the message is deleted,
so it still shows that message, albeit it shows up as being from Unknown with
(no subject). The problem is that this message can't be deleted, no m
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