Just an observation here that kind of ties two threads together. Someone
was commenting earlier about attachments in webmail not be intercepted by
the AV scanner. I didn't see any mention of the reason (maybe is so obvious
that everyone thinks everyone already knows it and doesn't want to look
foolish, but I'll do it - I'm not proud {bg}).
The web mail interacts directly with IMail - bypassing all the gateways,
scanners, etc between it and the mean nasty world out there. Unless
Ipswitch puts hooks into IMail to support AV scanning, this will be a big
hole in your defenses.
I don't have any solutions (yet), but I thought I'd throw this out.
Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] An Anti-Virus idea....
>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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