I suggest you have a look at Mfilter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mfilter) before you go installing Amavis. I have used Amavis at several large sites, and found it to have limitations, so I went looking for something more flexible. I heard about a bunch of scripts that a friend had hacked together, and asked for a copy. Since then we have packaged them and put them on a webpage (see above) I have this software running on some very large installations, and it works beautifully. It also has the ability to duplicate emails for archiving/censorship etc.. (Nasty I know, but required by alot of companies, and achieved with one extra line of perl) I have also written some SuSE startup/shutdown scripts for it, let me know if you want them as I haven't got around to putting them on the site. Next thing I have to do is create a SuSE rpm, as soon as I figgure out how. anyone got a pointer for a rpm creation howto? (no that I've even looked yet) HTH Nix At 12:22 AM 17/10/2000, you wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Duane Kehoe wrote:
My company is going to be moving our email services in house in the near future and we are probably going with the SuSE IMAP server does anyone have a suggestion about a server level virus scanner, since most of our clients are unfortunately windows this is a highly significant issue. We are looking for a scanner with capabilities to include detection, cleaning, and if unable to clean removal of infected files, attachments, or entire emails. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice. Well, you mya use AMaViS-Perl (www.amavis.org). We provide a slightly modified version of it for the SuSE eMail Server (formerly known as SuSE IMAP Server) on ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse_update/imap/1.0/virus/ Unfortunately, the SDB article for the installation is only available in german. Note: AMaViS is not a virus scanner per se, it's more a kind of interface. AMaViS supports a wide-range of commercial anti-virus products for Linux/Unix. And, btw, if an infected attachment is detected, the whole mail is blocked and put into quarantine.
HTH
best regards, Rainer Link
-- Rainer Link | SuSE - The Linux Experts link@suse.de | Developer of A Mail Virus Scanner (amavis.org) www.suse.de | Founder OpenAntiVirus Project (www.openantivirus.org)
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