I want to pipe all incoming messages with attachments through a virus scanner. How can I instruct a KMail filter to only work on e-mails with attachments?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 04:26, Bart Symons wrote:
I want to pipe all incoming messages with attachments through a virus scanner. How can I instruct a KMail filter to only work on e-mails with attachments?
Why bother. These viruses will not hurt you running linux. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:33, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 04:26, Bart Symons wrote:
I want to pipe all incoming messages with attachments through a virus scanner. How can I instruct a KMail filter to only work on e-mails with attachments?
Why bother. These viruses will not hurt you running linux.
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Hi John, Why bother? Because there are so many of them, because each mail is >100kbyte in size, because it slows down my mail downloads, because it inflates my local maildir files, because it pushes my Mbytes/month over the max. allocated by my ISP, because I don't want to inadvertenly forware anything to people still using Windows and finally because all of this is even worse for people still using a modem. So, this is why I activated POP filtering (to delete infected mails on the server before downloading) and I want to add antivirus scanning for anything with an infected attachment that does come through (so that I'll know how to adapt the POP filtering). And finally, it's only a matter of time before we'll also get Linux virusses a plenty. That's why I bother.
On Saturday 27 September 2003 23:45, Bart Symons wrote:
Because there are so many of them, because each mail is >100kbyte in size, because it slows down my mail downloads, because it inflates my local maildir files, because it pushes my Mbytes/month over the max. allocated by my ISP, because I don't want to inadvertenly forware anything to people still using Windows and finally because all of this is even worse for people still using a modem.
Well filtering via kmail will not solve any of these problems. 1) you've already downloaded it 2) you've already spent the megabytes/month getting it to kmail 3) Don't be forewarding things with attachments with out looking at them 4) your local maildir is already enlarged just getting the mail to kmail. As I tried to point out, by the time its in Kmail filtering is pointless because you'be alredy downloaded it, and its on your machine. It won't hurt linux. However, if you are in the habit of forwarding things WITHOUT checking them, you could do your friends a big favor and just don't do that any more. There is nothing you can run on your machine which will virus check a mail BEFORE it is downloaded. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Saturday 27 September 2003 23:45, Bart Symons wrote:
And finally, it's only a matter of time before we'll also get Linux virusses a plenty.
Oh, and you are wrong about this too. As long as you do not run as root, there is very little a room for a linux virus. Linux is not windows. Even if I sent you a virus and tricked you into putting it on your disk its not executable. There are a couple proof of concept linux viruses around but none in the wild. Believe me Microsoft would have its PR people makeing BIG noise in the press is there were ever one developed. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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