Randy Leiker wrote:
>
> I don't know how to help you out with the filters as I haven't had much of a
> chance to work with them, however I can help you out on the anti-virus
> issue. What I've done to address the email virus risk is to install Norton
> Antivirus 5.0 on each mail server (not necessarily on the gateway machine).
> I then instructed Antivirus to scan all of the files in the Imail queue
> whenever they are created/accessed, etc. To avoid some further overhead
> administration, I setup Norton's scheduler to automatically grab virus
> defintion update files on a nightly basis and to do scans of the entire
> server a couple of times each week. Using this method, I've been able to
> stop amazing amounts of email viruses that have come through the email
> servers I administrate.
I wouldn't have expected that to work -- aren't the files in the iMail queue
folder still in MIME format (i.e., not really files yet)? Does NAV decode them
before scanning?
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