clarification - email virus protection

[Lee]

If you need to do this in a high performance environment, I recommend 
amavisd-new - http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ - (a performance 
enhanced,  daemonized version of amavis). Amavisd-new is pretty simple 
to install, and gives you the double benefit of running spamassassin to 
kill spam at the same time as anti-virus checks.

L

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Bojan Zdrnja wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> [mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of
>> Wayne Dawson
>> Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:18 p.m.
>> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> Subject: clarification - email virus protection
>>
>>
>> Incoming
>> - incoming mail is received by Postfix
>> - Postfix, or something, initiates the virus scanner
>> - Postfix drops the mail somewhere
>> - Cyrus picks up the mail and stores it
>> - users log into Cyrus to read their mail
>>
>> Outgoing:
>> - user's mail client talks directly to Postfix to send mail
>> - Postfix probably doesn't scan for viruses at this point...?
>> - Postfix sends mail to receiving mail server
>
> I'd recommend integration of postfix with amavis
> (http://www.amavis.org), which can be configured to work with lots of
> different virus scanning packages. Considering anti-virus programs, I'd
> recommend sophie/libsav by Sophos for good performance.
> Amavis is integrated with postfix so all mails that go through it will
> be scanned (including incoming, as well as outgoing if you put your
> server as outgoing e-mail server).
>
> Regards,
>
> Bojan Zdrnja
>