-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So I though I'd be l33t and scan all my incoming mail for viruses at point of entry. Second step of being l33t is being lazy, so just enabled clamav-milter, since all the packages were already installed on my state-of-the-art bleeding-edge Red Hat 9 system and was ready to go.
Initially this worked like a charm -- no more incoming viruses, just terse notifications of the form ``Found virus, blocked virus''. Yippee, I thought to myself, this rocks! Unfortunately time, with its propensity to remove rose-tints from pictures, had a different story to tell... First of all, clamav-milter doesn't quarantine messages, it just bounces them back to the sender. Now this has two issues; firstly, viruses tend to spoof the From address in e-mails, so some poor bugger sitting in Latvia and running GNU/Hurd is getting triumphant e-mails from me saying, ``Thought you could infect me, huh? Well, sucks to you and my Daddy can beat your Daddy!''. Not Done. Next, I'm subscribed to mailing lists that distribute vulnerability and exploit code, so I often get legitimate mails that contain virus signatures. Unfortunately, I don't get those messages anymore -- milter has already bounced them back. Secondly, clamav-milter is ghastly slow. Sloooooooow. It takes up to a minute to deliver one message to me, and for me that's completely unacceptable -- I get ~400 messages a day in my inbox and watching fetchmail crawl in a Konsole window is too painful to bear. Ergo, I'll brave the viruses. Already disabled clamav-milter, tried to install Amavisd, which itself has a list of dependencies that reaches from here to the moon. Will install once the weather is a bit cooler (say, December 2010). In the meantime any suggestions on my problems are welcome. - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFAcjWvyWjQ78xo0X8RAp8jAJ9zQASOILuGdAwTxSD1M5s4UsydoACfVoTv 6vByE3Xaz39bxDeUxnIoMrE= =6nuV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
