On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 07:15, Marcus Franke wrote: > Am Fre, 2002-07-12 um 12.15 schrieb Anton J Aylward, CISSP: > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 00:34, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > > > > Along the same lines, solving problems that are already solved is also a > > > waste of time (if you want a virus scanner for your email, this is best > > > done on the SERVER not the CLIENT). > > > > Damn Right! > > And in a corporate setting the likelihood of a mail gateway or central > > server is much greater. > > What about the home user then? Im pretty sure that some of my > friends use Linux on their desktops, but I doubt that more than > one or two beside me use fetchmail to get their mails..
Having client-side IMAP virus-scan filters in Evolution won't help you here either. Please... just think 2 minutes. Just *2 minutes* about the virus problem and you will conclude that the BEST and ONLY place to have this type of filtering is server-side. As soon as it is client-side, it's too late. If the virus can affect the client software, then you've just been infected. Game over. > > Windows users are used to mail clients that fetch the mails > directly from the server.. You won't get them all to configure > fetchmail and procmail an avmailgate.. You won't be able to get these people to virus scan either. Again, another + for server-side filtering. > > And the possibility to hook some antivirus application into evolution > to scan for viruses in the mailbox will give place for companies to > sell such solutions to the end-users that switch from one desktop to > "our" desktop.. Yes, because after all this solves all the problems of viruses. This does nothing but open a market for companies that would otherwise not exist. How does this solve the problem of viruses? It doesn't. It has a better chance of solving unemployment than it does anti-viruses (and it won't solve unemployment either). Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
