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[Steve Ochani]

I had the same problem, that's why I decided to go with clamav


On 1 Aug 2004 at 18:29, JT wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It has been covered before but no fool-proof answers have been given
> (and is not likely to happen). I've been contacting almost all of the
> supported anti-virus companies and asked them if i could use their
> command line version to scan mail.  I didn't mention mailscanner.  The
> overall answer was no you can't, you need the virusscanner for
> mailservers,.....
>
> My statement is:
> Mailscanner is handling the task of fetching the mails, strip off the
> attachment and scan it with an external virusscanner.
>
> An anti-virus package for mailservers is made to do this too.  Fetch
> the mails, strip off the attachment and scan it.
>
> Since Mailscanner is overlapping the functions of the
> anti-virusscanner for mailservers the only thing that needs to be done
> at the end is to scan a plain file! Something command-line
> filescanners are licensed to do!
>
> What is your opinion about this?  Is there someone who has more
> knowledge/experience about this? Any legal advice ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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