First time installation of MailScanner

[Erik Jakobsen]

Free of charge is the F-Prot for Linux.


Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot found
virus W32/Swen.A at mm
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot found
1 infections
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: Saved infected "Update91.exe"
to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030922/5D40FAAB02
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: Other Checks: Found 1 problems
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: Notices: Warned about 1 messages
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 160246 bytes
Sep 22 16:27:05 gateway MailScanner[9385]: New Batch: Found 3 messages
waiting

You can see, that it works. I don't know how good it is compared to the
over 100's of $'s antivirusscanner, but for sure some knows that here in
the forum :-)

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> The solution will be a little bid complicate.  I think I have to find an
> AntiVirus software from Open Source to filter M$ junk mails
>
> Have you had any suggestion?  Or any folk has any proposal?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:30, Kevin Spicer wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:06, Stephen Liu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>SMTP is to send mails
>>
>>Thats true, but SMTP is also to have mail sent _to_ your server.  POP3
>>and IMAP by contrast are for downloading mail from a (usually remote)
>>server.  A Mail Transfer Agents (MTA) generally communicate using SMTP,
>>MailScanner integrates with the MTA.  POP3 and IMAP are not MTA
>>functions, they are usually served by a separate POP or IMAP server.
>>
>>If you wish to use MailScanner in a 'typical' ISP client server
>>relationship you need to run an MTA (sendmail/exim/postfix) on your box
>>and use fetchmail to collect your mail from the POP server, passing it
>>on to your local sendmail which passes it through MailScanner and then
>>delivers into your local mailbox.  To scan outgoing mail you need to
>>configure your MTA to use your ISP's SMTP server as a smart host and
>>then send your mail to your local smtp server rather than directly to
>>your ISP.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>BMRB International
>>http://www.bmrb.co.uk
>>+44 (0)20 8566 5000
>
>
>
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