I have used Amavis in the past and I found it a little convoluted as a
solution if someone want to use it on an email gateway. You need, in fact,
to use it in conjuction with procmail and in my opinion it gets a little
to kludgy. I have found, instead, another solution that is much cleaner.
It is a patch for sendmail written by Petr Rehor that allow to call virtually
any antivirus software from sendmail. Check http://www.decros.cz/~reho/check_virus
I have used it in conjuction with TrenMicro InterScan and MacAfee VisuScan
at several sites and it works great.
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"Victor E. Arroyo" wrote:
>
> Well Dana,
>
> First question I would ask is.
>
> 1. Is your mailserver Unix or NT. ?
> 2. If its Unix, Are you using Sendmail ?
> 3. If its Unix you can get a freeware version of Amavis ( A freeware Email
> Virus Scanner ) for Unix or Linux.
>
> You would still have to get Anti-Virus Software for Unix. Like McAfee,
> Sophos or AVP. but Amavis will call the AntiVirus software on each mail it
> trys to deliver. then scan the email and attachments..
>
> It will also send an email to the sender, recipient and the administrator
> of the Mail Server of a virus if it finds one...
>
> Thanks
> Vic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dana Nowell
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 3:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [security:01591] Email scanner
>
> I'm looking for a centralized email anti-virus scanner for a small company
> ( <50 people ). And before you ask, no they were not hit by the latest
> spate of vbs stuff, but it did help accelerate the project :). I've
> tripped across mailsweeper, Trend's viruswall, and Norton AV, any comments
> good or bad? Anyone know of a better/cheaper product?
>
> >From a requirements standpoint: current mail system uses SMTP/POP3,
> either
> UNIX or NT for scanner is OK, company has 30-40 bodies but many more email
> addresses, wants virus scanning of inbound and outbound mail (including
> VBS), not terribly interested in CONTENT scanning of mail. Current
> solution is several custom hacks and scripts that need replacement by
> commercial software to hopefully reduce maintenance.
>
> Please respond off-line and I'll summarize to the list.
>
> Dana Nowell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cornerstone Software Inc.
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