Thanks. I'm going to strongly urge them just use AV on the clients, setting up a whole mail server and filtering system is looking too complex for such a small office. But it's good to know what the options are.
-Steve On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 04:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Steve Cayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:30:15 -0600 >> >> Hey all. I do some volunteering with a local non-profit which is >> thinking of setting up a router/gateway/firewall for their small >> (5-6 machines) win95 & win98 network. I immediately thought of >> LEAF, having got it working well at home, but the director thinks >> the router should also handle email virus filtering. Seems like a >> whole different kettle of fish to me, and complicated to boot. I'd >> lean toward just putting Norton AV on each client, but then you've >> got to buy a subscription for each one. Is there a better way of >> filtering email for viruses? >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. > > I would agree with you that it is a "good thing" (TM) to separate the > firewall from the mail server. > > "Lots of little boxes". > > The LEAF configuration shouldn't vary very often and a write protected > floppy is perfect - extra security! A Mail Server must buffer email > and therefore needs a hard disk and a Virus Scanner with regular > updates again needs a hard disk. > > What I have done here, is a LEAF firewall (actually two - one ADSL, > one backup ISDN) and a Postfix (http://www.postfix.org/) mail server > on an old Pentium 133 with a hard disk "within" the private network. > > I haven't yet done Anti-virus on the Mail Server (the company already > had a company-wide subscription to a client anti-virus product) and I > gather that Anti virus *can* cost quite a lot of resources (chiefly > CPU cycles, but also disk - zip files etc. must be unpacked before > scanning). > > The one the Postfix people keep seem to be using is AMaViS > (http://amavis.org/) and I believe there are *free* anti-virus > products with regular updates still available which can be used with > amavis under Linux! > > YMMV > > >> -Steve > > > Greetings > > Mark Plowman > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
