Terje Fåberg said: > > Hi, > > > And that's where I'm standing right now: I have a few > gigabytes of emails and no clue whether there are any > virii in them. And neither do I have a clue how to > solve this problem.
this is very difficult to do in my experience. I've only had to do this once, you can see the thread here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100970760600001&r=1&w=2 it involved a virus that got past my sophos scanner but was caught at my 2nd tier scanner(mcafee). the trouble was the scanners do not understand the encoded files so you gotta decode them. after probably 2 hours of research I figured out a hacky way to do it. it involved editing the amavis test script so the temporary directories were not automatically removed when the message was scanned. As you can see this thread is nearly a year old so I do not remember what specific modifications I made to the script, but it wasn't hard to do(took maybe 5-10 minutes and I don't know perl) at that point I had the raw temporary files amavis works with and I was able to find the file with the virus. doing this on thousands of emails though would be difficult, though not impossible. passing it through amavis is probably the best bet since it handles all the encodings and compression schemes for you, I think it would be easier then trying to find something to decode the messages by hand. never hurts to have virus scanning on the desktop too nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]