SMTP vs. POP3 Scanning

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Matt [mailto:matt at FILEHOLDER.NET]
>Envoyé : 1 mars, 2004 22:44
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : SMTP vs. POP3 Scanning
>
>
>When a new virus comes out it could be hours before a 
>signature is available
>for the virus scanner and in that time it could slip into many 
>mailboxes.
>When it does get in the virus scanner database it does nothing 
>for the mail
>already in mailboxes.  Many users only check there email once 
>a day if that.
>Would it not be an added benefit to scan at the POP3 phase as 
>well as SMTP?
>
>Just a thought and sorry if this has been covered before.  I 
>have got emails
>from a user before that had his virus scanner catch viruses 
>mine missed.  I
>tell all users they should still keep there virus scanners up 
>to date.  But
>as well as ClamAV + MS has worked for us many don't.
>

MailScanner's role stops after the delivery of the message, independantly of the way it is retreived.  I think you should do a search on anti-virus with the name of your pop3 server (qpopper?), on google or sourceforge.

Hth

Ugo
>Matt
>