Problem with cyrus and deleting a message with a virus.

[Jonathan Marsden]

On 21 Jan 2003, Mark London writes:

>>> Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message
>>> file that contains a virus.  ...

>> If you're messing around with the internal data stores of a
>> program, and then you get upset when the program doesn't work, I'd
>> say that you've created your own problem.
 
> I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it.  Is there a better
> software alternative that will delete viruses on the server?  Are we
> the only people using cyrus that are running virus scanning software
> on the server?

How about checking for viruses before mail reaches Cyrus?  Such as
with a virus scanner that runs as a milter which sendmail talks to
when it receives mail?  Or a similar approach for whatever your chosen
MTA is?

We use RAV http://www.ravantivirus.com in its Sendmail-milter version
with good results here.

There is no really need to treat the cyrus mailstore as a pile of
files, or to run software that naively does that (thereby causing your
own problem, as has been pointed out) in order to scan email for
viruses.

Jonathan
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