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[Lamar Owen]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:00 am, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> >  o SPAM and virus are blight, spamassassin is a good tool to combat
> >    spam, but it is necessary a filter like mailscanner, or amavis or...
> >    to get a good mta/antivirus integration.

> pointless w/o clamav (which is includable, but probably better Extras for
> now)

MailScanner can strip executables easily, doing basically everything 
MIMEdefang does and then some.  I found the installation extremely easy, even 
on an Aurora 1.0 SPARC box.  It does, however, override the default sendmail 
initscript, and starts both itself and sendmail in one initscript.  This 
might be a minor stumblingblock.  The way it's installer is distributed is 
alos not the Regular Way, being a tarball of source RPMs of a bunch of perl 
modules, an installer script (which rebuilds all of the Perl RPMs from source 
RPM, to get everything in the right place), and a binary RPM of the tnef 
code.  I had to track down and rebuild the tnef RPM for my SPARC box, but 
intel users don't have that problem.

ClamAV is a nice addition to MailScanner, but 99% of e-mailed viruses are in 
executable attachments, which doesn't require an AV scanner to strip, which 
lessens the load on the mailserver.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu