virus scanning for linux email downloader

[Gerry Doris]

> Michael:
> 	I use MIMEDefang to process email on the Linux StepByStep site as well
> as my
> other sites. You can get it from www.roaringpenguin.org/mimedefang . It
> then  calls SpamAssassin, which calls Vipuls Razor (v1 !!) and then
> calls  File::Scan to check for viruses. You could also throw Anomy::HTML
> in their to  check inbound HTML email as well. All are open source
> projects and I have had  NO issues with them. You will need the latest
> Sendmail and you need to have  it compiled with libmilter turned on (see
> the SxS). After that, it's fairly  easy to install the Perl modules. I
> would install Razor, then SpamAssassin,  then File::Scan and finally
> MIMEDefang (everything will autodetect each other  this way). Let me
> know if you have questions.
> - --
> Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
> Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
> 	and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org

I originally tried to use MIMEdefang but never could get it to work.  I
was intrigued with the author's view that he doesn't supply binaries...if
you don't know how to compile code then you shouldn't be trying to use his
app.  I can see his point but it still seems to be rather stupid to me.

In any case, MIMEdefang just wouldn't compile on my system.  I continued
to get string errors no matter what I did.  MIMEdefang's author and I
exchanged printouts but he couldn't figger out what was happening either.

I then checked out mailscanner.  It doesn't require any config changes to
the stock sendmail install and comes as a rpm package (as well as tar).  I
installed it in minutes and it has worked ever since.

mailscanner uses spamassassin if you have it installed.  It also supports
several virus engines (ie. McAfee, Sophos, F-Prot, etc).  Julian Field who
wrote the code couldn't be more responsive to requests for features.  I
highly recommend mailscanner.

Gerry
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