On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:56:56 -0500 (EST), Christopher Seawood wrote:
>cd /var/qmail/bin
>mv qmail-remote qmail-remote-real
>mv qmail-local qmail-local-real
>ln -s /usr/sbin/scanmails qmail-remote
>ln -s /usr/sbin/scanmails qmail-local
>
>This will allow you to scan all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses.
>If you do not feel comfortable moving the binaries around, you can just
>add:
>| /usr/sbin/scanmails $SENDER $RECEIPIENT
>to /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc .
Is it possible to do scanning of outgoing mail at the qmail-queue
level? Especially qmail-remote is very expensive as it is invoked per
delivery attempt, rather than per message. So, for a mailing list with
10K subscribers, you scan the message maybe 15K times ... In this case,
one can use qmail-local only, since the message passes it on the way
_to_ the list, but that leaves the possibility of locally generating
messages with viruses.
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
