Do you expand the MIME/64's, scan, then delete the offending (e.g. MIME)
attachment? I am very interested in such filtering at the mail gateway
into a system. Any known tools (product, GPL, or otherwise) that could
be convinced to work with QMail?
Alex at Star wrote:
>
> >Essentially, I don't believe that anyone is actually running anything
> >like this at this point in time.
> Apart from Star Internet, of course. We have been scanning all email since November.
> See our Stats page at http://academy.star.co.uk/public/virustats.htm for the current
>top 10 email viruses.
>
> >Write a qmail-queue wrapper which reads in the email as normal,
> > sweeps it using an external virus sweeper, if clean passes it to
> > the real qmail-queue.
> Probably your current best bet. For safety, you should use more than one virus
>scanner (we use three). Each month, we find that some scanners miss some viruses, and
>other scanners miss others. Expect to take up to 10 times longer to process your mail
>than before, and upgrade your hardware appropriately. Expect your helpdesk to be
>swamped with calls about viruses and train them appropriately! If you don't catch 1
>virus per 2000 emails, you are doing something wrong (or your clients are remarkably
>virus free!)
>
> Good luck!
>
> Alex
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