On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> any suggestion on what's the best email/mime virus scanner that's
> linux based, aside from the filtering/rejecting thing that we could do
> with our mail configuration stuffs?
sophos+amavis+exim. Just get a computer with cpu cycles and globs of RAM
memory to spare. If not, say 20 people getting their e-mails with .zip
attachments at the same time will slow down your server.
> One of the things that i don't want with some of the mime scanner is
> that it alters, or even delete various parts of a MIME message.
>
> Do i need a licensed package that would run on RH Linux 6.2 boxes in
> order to implement virus scanning?
For the sophos part... you need a license. So you have to pay. But IMHO,
it's worth it.
> Will it really solve my problem?
It may solve half of your problem. But user education is still the best
way to combat these pesky viruses/trojans in your lusers winblows
computers.
regards,
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