but hoe can one use Amavis with qmail, p'se help
Eric
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Rainer Link wrote:
> "Benjamin de los Angeles Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Can you sight pros/cons of using your antivirus software compared to
> > AmaVis?
> > > [I used it's perlscanner interface to match on the attachment filename while
> > > waiting for the Antivirus vendors to come up with an "official" fix :-)]
> > > See http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/
>
> Well, I think you refer to AMaViS-Perl? AMaViS-Perl does not require any
> qmail patch(es) and supports more antivirus software.
> scan4virus provides a "generic filter/scanner" to filter out eMails with
> a specific attachment name - which in case of "I love you" is a good
> thing, but it's very easy to change the file name (or the subject line),
> according to BugTraq this has happend.
> (Btw, stopping hoaxes is a also a difficult task - anyone can change
> subject or the body easily ...).
> Well, scan4virus is specific to qmail, whereas AMaViS supports sendmail
> & postfix, too (the shell script version supports exim, too).
>
> Jason? :-)
>
> best regards,
> Rainer Link
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