killing viruses in kmail

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:57:50 -0500
Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:

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> Tony Alfrey spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > Hi.
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> > I use kmail.  Periodically I get things that look like some nasty
> > html-based script that is some sort of Windowsy virus.  I can usually
> > tell what they are by the title of the mail or by the name of the
> > sender even before I click on the message.
> > So my objective is to delete them without opening them.
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> if that's your objective, why not kill them when sendmail gets the email
> to begin with? http://www.linux-sxs.org/sendmail_antispam.html will tell
> you how to get sendmail running with an anti-virus product inserted in the
> milter process

Any preferences for which virus scanner to actually use? I see that a number
are supported. 

I want to move my office away from requiring each WIN user to have a scanner
installed. Of course, they can still bring them into the network via
non-network media on their computer, but that is a separate problem (as I
look at it today).



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