query if mailscanner using clamscan

[Res]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Julian Field wrote:

> shuttlebox wrote:
>> On 7/29/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> The only thing I can think of is to ship with a copy of Eicar.
>>>
>>
>> Please don't ship Eicar with MailScanner. That will make many of us
>> not able to download MailScanner since http-scanning will detect a
>> virus in it.
>>
> I have just had 2 people test this, as I didn't think it would be a
> problem. And it's not. Please don't jump to conclusions until you have
> some evidence to back it up :-)
>


Just a suggestion, how about making MailScanner available via ftp and/or 
rsync? That way anyone who is/may/might_be affected by any policies or 
proxies or other interception techniques, will not have to worry.


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Cheers
Res