Hi John, I simply don't want to have things like sendmail/qmail/fetchmail/... running on my box. I have a very simple use case: kmail as my mail client for use with my ISP's mail server. I really can't be bothered with all the intricacies of x different daemons. I know these Windows virusses won't affect my Linux/KMail box but I still want to be alerted whenever someone (inadvertently) sends me a virus infected file. I use antivir to check incoming mails thanks to the "pipe" option in KMail's filters. This works fine and dumps all the infected mails in a dedicated "!VIRUS!" folder. However, I'ld like to add some additional information to the infected mails, in much the same way as spamassassin does. So this is why I'm looking for a simple tool that lets me insert text in a mail body or attach the text as a .txt file. On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:23, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 10:52, Bart Symons wrote:
I wasn't clear enough in my description. I already have te antivir part, I am using the H+BEDV software (antivir is included on the SuSE DVD.
The only thing I'ld like to add is a way to insert a "virus such and such found" message in either the mail body or as a .txt file attachment to the original mail. It is this part that is still lacking.
If your sendmail/qmail is already running thru amavis you will never see these viruses in Kmail (unless kmail is popping some other site other than your own machind) because the virused mail will already be detected and sequestered by amavis.
If you want to pop other sites and scan them it would be better to use fetchmail and pass them all thru sendmail/qmail for virus and spam scanning rather than waiting to do it after they hit your kmail.
If you are reading your mail with Kmail, why worry about viruses anyway? They won't hurt you.
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen