External virus scanners

[Adri Koppes]

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Can't you use Mailscanner as the primary MX for your domain to accept all
incoming mail?
Install ClamAV, BitDefender or some other free virus scanner on the
MailScanner machine to try to catch as many virusses at the MailScanner
gateway.
The use the mailertable or smarthost feature of sendmail to forward all
cleaned mail from MailScanner to your existing Windows server with the SMTP
virus scanner, which scans the mail again and delivers to the users.
After a while, evaluate whether you really need the external scanner by
checking how many virusses it has caught?

Adri.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wilcock [mailto:john at TRADOC.FR]
> Sent: 03 March, 2005 11:35
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: External virus scanners
>
>
> Pete Russell wrote:
> > Violaine Grimly wrote:
> >> That is unfortunately not an option. The virus scanner
> >> computer is "out of limits" from our point of view,
> >> must not be changed or bypassed (and it runs on a
> >> Windows box).
>
> > Send all the mail to it, scan it and return it to mailscanner?
>
> Or just scan it in MailScanner, then send it to their box
> clean to prove
> how good MS is!
>
> John.
>
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