On Sunday 02 January 2005 20:01, SnapafunFrank wrote: > What I had in mind is that a " onboard " mail client be established that > would allow any email client to get the email via it, appoint klamav to > check the email coming through and going out at this point - basically > all email passes " this way ". > > Similar to the 'server' capabilities of AVG7 Pro that I use when I visit > my windows installation. <snipped>
> Interested? If you mean a new project, I figured I would mention to you that Linux has this capability built in. If you run a local copy of an MTA like Postfix, and route your ISP mail through that local MTA, you can push mail through a virus checker prior to local delivery. There would be no need to filter outgoing mail with Linux, because the only way that you could send a virus out would be to manually attach the virus to your mail and I assume that you are not going to do that unless it is intentional. I haven't done it, but I also assume that you can use procmail and clamav to push mail through a virus checker prior to local delivery as well. I imagine that you can use Kmail's anti-virus wizard to do the same thing. However, most Linux machines would probably do this at the MTA level, whether local or not, rather than trying to build a whole new project at the client level. And, as an aside, any reliance on a tag that says that a mail has been virus scanned is really VERY misguided, since such tags can be spoofed very easily, and in fact, several worms spoof exactly such tags in their mail. -- Bryan Phinney
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