SMTP Time Scanning

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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Gregg Berkholtz wrote:

>I apologize if this is a FAQ, but Google tells me it's not.  Can
>MailScanner do SMTP-time scanning (ie: via a tie-in with an MTA)?
>
>Thanks,
>Gregg Berkholtz
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No, MailScanner purposefully doesn't touch the SMTP stream, and only 
works with message queues and such. If you want to do SMTP-time 
scanning, and your MTA is sendmail, you can use a milter such as 
clamav-milter for virus scanning and spamassassin-as-a-milter (never 
used it myself so I don't know what it's called). I use clamavmilter to 
reduce the load on the server by dropping mail with viruses before they 
reach sendmail+mailscanner+spamassassin.

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