[wellylug] email virus scanners

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 02:30 +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:53:48AM +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > If you still want to scan for viruses, (and this *may* become necessary 
> > if Linux is ever targetted by virus writers), then one thing you can do 
> > is pick up your mail with 'fetchmail' and feed it to your own local 
> > server running postfix, exim, or even (for the masochists) sendmail. 
> > Then you can scan with AVG as the mail comes in, before it is delivered 
> > to your (local) mail box.
> > 
> Feeding "delivered" email into an MTA for re-delivery is an inherently
> risky task; email that came *to* you but did not have your name on the
> message headers (for example, mailing lists like this) can be easily
> bounced back to the originator by accident.
> 
> So just make sure that you read all the warnings in the readme files :-)
> Also consider alternatives to fetchmail like getmail; the prevalance or
> fetchmail is based on two main factors; age and ESR's reputation.
> 
> (Having said all that, I use fetchmail myself, so it can't be all that
> bad!)

yeah, I would avoid fetchmail - I once had a problem where it decided to
eat all the email it downloaded. The 2nd time I ran it, it worked
fine. :-/

Naturally, I was very annoyed. :-(

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
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