For anti-virus protection for email, use amavis, assuming you're using
Linux. We set it up here, pretty easy.
It does not clean the attached file, it just detects the infected
attachment, stop the message from being sent, destroys the message, then
notifies the sender and the recipient of the offending file. AND... it's
free. If I'm not mistaken (and I may be), it works like a wrapper to
sendmail. I don't remember off-hand if it scans outgoing email.
You still have to get a third party anti-virus program, like McAfee.
Amavis has worked well for us. Hope this helps.
Lillian
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:32:40 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Clarification : How to secure the content of POP mailboxes?
I wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry for my poor English...
> Many small (or medium) organisations use, for their needs of public
mailboxes,
a POP server owned by the ISP instead of a SMTP server in their private
network.
> It means that a user connects to the POP server located at the ISP,
download
his mails and cut the connection.
> In this model, how can we secure the content of the e-mails?
> Tx for the help.
> Bertrand
I agree: against intrusion, PGP or other encryption tools are the right
choice.
But what can we do against viruses (I don't trust antivirus installed on the
end-user machine)? In fact I'm looking for an equivalent to Mailsweeeper +
Antivirus tools.
Do you have an idea for this?
Bertrand
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