> Has anyone actually been able to tie an external anti-virus > program to IMail using Knowledgebase article > http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20000517-DM01.htm ? No, but should be able to. I was able to have an external program run, but I wasn't looking to send it to anti-virus software. In order to work, the software it was being sent to would HAVE to be able to recognize mail attachments (UUencoded and MIME), otherwise it would be a moot point. It shouldn't be too difficult for someone with some programming skills to accomplish this. It's just a matter of locking the file per the directions (looking at some other KB articles makes the locking scheme a bit clearer), sending the file to the AV program, and if the AV program doesn't find a virus, run SMTP32. > Specifically, I am looking for a way to use Norton > Antivirus 2000 with IMail. From the article, it appears that > one would need an intermediate piece of software or script > to deal with all the checking, renaming and re-renaming. Yes, you definitely need to write (or find someone who has written) code to handle this. > If there is a better solution, I am open to it. SMTP gateways offer protection, but at a (slight) extra level of overhead (two passes through SMTP in addition to the regular virus-scanning overhead). It also complexifies the situation (such as for spam protection). If someone finds a good virus scanner that can handle MIME/UUENCODED attachments, someone might be able to write a small program that would do what the KB article says, so IMail could handle it directly (which would allow better spam protection). -Scott Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
