Re: Mail Server Virus Protection
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: I don't recall if I have seen anything on this list regarding the issue of scanning messages for viruses as they are processed by a Linux-based mail server. If there is such a package, where can I find information on this such as the format for mail storage and configuration? Thanks for any assistance you can provide. We use Amavis from http://www.amavis.org/. It is a GPL application. It works well for us. Amavis will work with Sendmail, Postfix, and Qmail (and possibly others). You will also need a virus scanner to plug in to it. We use Amavis + Sendmail + McAffee. Sendmail's libmilter is great! - Jean-Paul Stewart Senior Systems Administrator CarbonMedia, Inc. 114 East 25th Street, Eighth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone: 212.253.7180 Fax: 212.253.8467 http://www.carbonmedia.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server Virus Protection
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: I don't recall if I have seen anything on this list regarding the issue of scanning messages for viruses as they are processed by a Linux-based mail server. If there is such a package, where can I find information on this such as the format for mail storage and configuration? Thanks for any assistance you can provide. We use Amavis from http://www.amavis.org/. It is a GPL application. It works well for us. Amavis will work with Sendmail, Postfix, and Qmail (and possibly others). You will also need a virus scanner to plug in to it. We use Amavis + Sendmail + McAffee. Sendmail's libmilter is great! - Jean-Paul Stewart Senior Systems Administrator CarbonMedia, Inc. 114 East 25th Street, Eighth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone: 212.253.7180 Fax: 212.253.8467 http://www.carbonmedia.com/
Re: Mail Server Virus Protection
I have set up a server with exiscan along with McAfee VirusScan for Linux and it has worked quite well. The only problem is that messages aren't delivered immediately, there are queued until the exiscan script checks them for virus's. Exim normally attempts to deliver mail straight away. Apart from that I am rather happy with it. Andrew Tait System Administrator Country NetLink Pty, Ltd E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cnl.com.au 30 Bank St Cobram, VIC 3644, Australia Ph: +61 (03) 58 711 000 Fax: +61 (03) 58 711 874 It's the smell! If there is such a thing. Agent Smith - The Matrix - Original Message - From: Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian ISP Mailing List debian-isp@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: Re: Mail Server Virus Protection Another scanner (which I haven't tried yet) is exiscan: http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/ says: ... works together with the Exim MTA designed to be very easy to implement. Exiscan supports multithreaded unpacking and scanning of mail, with a configurable number of processes. Exiscan has generic support for available command line virus scanners. Exiscan can scan inside of MS-TNEF and SMIME (signed) wrapped messages. I started making a list of different filters and scanners: http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/filters.html (If anyone wants to share some comments for my page, please do.) Jeremy C. Reed ... ISP-FAQ.com -- find answers to your questions http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server Virus Protection
I have set up a server with exiscan along with McAfee VirusScan for Linux and it has worked quite well. The only problem is that messages aren't delivered immediately, there are queued until the exiscan script checks them for virus's. Exim normally attempts to deliver mail straight away. Apart from that I am rather happy with it. Andrew Tait System Administrator Country NetLink Pty, Ltd E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cnl.com.au 30 Bank St Cobram, VIC 3644, Australia Ph: +61 (03) 58 711 000 Fax: +61 (03) 58 711 874 It's the smell! If there is such a thing. Agent Smith - The Matrix - Original Message - From: Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian ISP Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: Re: Mail Server Virus Protection Another scanner (which I haven't tried yet) is exiscan: http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/ says: ... works together with the Exim MTA designed to be very easy to implement. Exiscan supports multithreaded unpacking and scanning of mail, with a configurable number of processes. Exiscan has generic support for available command line virus scanners. Exiscan can scan inside of MS-TNEF and SMIME (signed) wrapped messages. I started making a list of different filters and scanners: http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/filters.html (If anyone wants to share some comments for my page, please do.) Jeremy C. Reed ... ISP-FAQ.com -- find answers to your questions http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server Virus Protection
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:42:03PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: I don't recall if I have seen anything on this list regarding the issue of scanning messages for viruses as they are processed by a Linux-based mail server. If there is such a package, where can I find information on this such as the format for mail storage and configuration? Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Don't use AVP. It's a piece of crap. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server Virus Protection
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:31:56PM +0200, Stojan Rancic wrote: Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Don't use AVP. It's a piece of crap. Actually, AVP with avcheck seem to work splendidly here, in combination with Postfix, scanning quite a number of mails every day and blocking the plague of Win32 viruses.. Yeah, only it crashes on larger mails and fills up whole disk with some binary crap instead of report :- Installer doesn't even run, you need to install it manually. And of course it's as non free as it can be. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
