>There seems to be some great AV engines already designed, what they did is
>license these engines and write the interface to Exchange. The company is
>Sybari and it won't work on IMail, but I thought perhaps someone on this
>list could figure how to make, Sophos, Norman, Norton, or NAI hook into
>IMail.
At this point, there are no hooks in Imail for av scanners. But that
doesn't matter, imo, because the av scanner should be inserted in the mail
flow upstream from Imail, and in a separate dedicated machine. The AV
scanners are dedicated to AV, not anti-spam (although GFI MailEssentials
has some anti-spam featuers) so to get a total, whiter-than-white mail
infrasture, you need something like this:
1. Internet gateway relay with agressive antispam features
(http://IMGate.MEIway.com).
(btw, Dusty Carden at NetEase.net got his first IMGate machine running
Tuesday night)
2. av scanner relay of your choice, content scanner.
3. Imail
This keeps the functions in separate boxes, spreads the load for unlimited
scalablility (you can build any number of 1., 2., 3.) and flexiblity and
reliabiilty. It keeps the functions "loosely coupled" across the SMTP
protocol, avoiding tight coupling and hooking within one machine.
Len
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