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...where it would be relatively harmless anyway except to the already-infected local user...At 14:16 -0800 Jonathan Marsden wrote:How about checking for viruses before mail reaches Cyrus? Such as with a virus scanner that runs as a milter which sendmail talks to when it receives mail? Or a similar approach for whatever your chosen MTA is?
Because (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) lmtpd is not the only way messages can be stored on an IMAP server: eg think of sending a poisoned attachment, which magically ends up in your sent folder.
Putting the virus scanner in your MTA not only greatly limits the possibility that computers accessing your Cyrus server will be infected in the first place, but also insures against the possibility of having locally infected computers sending virii to all your associates, clients, vendors, etc. (assuming that you block unauthorized outgoing SMTP at your firewall). IMHO the MTA is by far the best possible place to put a virus scanner.
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Jules Agee
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Pacific Coast Feather Co.
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