Patrick Ahlbrecht (p.ahlbrecht@billiton.de) wrote:
Since I run qmail on my SuSE box, I patched it and use it with qmail-scanner which automatically calls f-prot scan-engine and if there is some virus found, I get report as an email, and virus is put in quarantine where I can check it and remove it. Very useful.
This is a point I disagree strongly with. I consider the idea of installing a virus scanner in the mailsystem greatly flawed and/or contraproductive:
Pls. cool down :-)
Educating users may be something very uncompfortable (for both, you and them), but in the long run could save you a lot of trouble (like user A complaining about how long it takes to download the 30MB+ word document, via ISDN, user B sent to the team mailing list). After all, if you cannot disciple your users into not using a certain broken email app, how do you prevent them from setting up a second account with some freemailer and getting their share of malware through there?
I'm speaking about single-user dialup account where I fetch my mail with fetchmail/getmail and filter it with procmail/maildrop, and I want to be sure that all the garbage ie. virus attachments are removed. It doesn't take too long to scan the messages before leaving them to enter sorting phase. If there is a question of mail server, then this is another scenario, but I didn't have feeling that some Linux newbie is running the mail server :-) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493