[Fwd: mail scanner]

[Julian Field]

At 23:31 27/09/2002, you wrote:
>My boss wants to know if this is feasible.  :)

Not very easy. I've always left that job to the virus scanners. Most of the
decent ones support virtually every archive format in existence.


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>James A. Pattie
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>Hey,  A great feature (that would involve alot of work to implement)  would be
>configuration options to disect certain files and then scan them, such as
>gzip.
>bzip2, etc.
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>This way if your particular virus scanner does not support bzip2 files it
>wouldn't matter as much bc mailscanner could be configured to uncomprss
>the file
>then scan it.
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