I have found that using Exiscan with Exim as well as the Sophie/Sophos
Antivirus combination on the relays has been a wonderful tool to stop
this virus menance. As well as using Spamassassin as a tool is wonderful
but I don't know how well Razor works anymore it used to be a big thing
but its now something that is up in the air.
Cheers,
Aly.
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:33, Gerry Doris wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael George wrote:
>
> > I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server
> > in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail
> > server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming
> > email on the server and I've never done that before...
> >
> > I've found several projects at freshmeat that claim to work with sendmail and
> > do virus scanning. I was hoping maybe some of the users on this list could
> > give me their recommendations to help me narrow the search.
> >
> > We'll be using a POP3 server for the windoze clients to get their mail and
> > sendmail for receiving incoming mail. Initially the server will be for
> > internal mail only, but eventually, the ISP will be the initial recipient of
> > all company mail and then throw it over the wall to the internal sendmail
> > server (which will only accept SMTP connections from internal hosts or the
> > single IP address outside. If this makes a difference...
> >
> > Thanks for all your 2ยข-worth (in advance :)
> >
> > -Michael
>
> I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly.
> Next install razor and then spamassassin. Those should go in very easily.
> This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out
> MailScanner.
>
> MailScanner works seamlessly with all of the above. It doesn't require
> any changes to sendmail/Exim and can be installed with an rpm. You will
> need to select a virus engine and MailScanner works with about a dozen of
> them. I highly recommend F-Prot.
>
> F-Prot is free for home/non-commerical use and for commercial users only
> charges per server. The other virus scanners charge per seat and it can
> get very expensive. They update their virus files every few days and
> MailScanner provides a cron script to download them automatically.
>
> There's also a great mailscanner-mrtg rpm that will allow you to view
> several graphs of your setup using your web browser. You can see server
> load, # of messages arriving, size of messages, ethernet traffic, cpu %,
> etc. This is for each day, week, month, and year.
>
> This may sound like a lot of work but if you do it one step at a time it
> pretty easy.
>
> --
> Gerry
>
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
>
>
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