virus scan on cyrus mailboxes

Philip Edelbrock phil at edgedesign.us
Mon Jul 25 14:01:49 EDT 2005


I found clamav to work quite well.

http://www.clamav.net/

It works through a sendmail-milter.  It connects periodicly to the 'net 
to get virus sig updates.  It blocks more than virii, too, including 
(configurable) encrypted archives, broken executables, phishing emails, etc.


Phil

Mikael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a solution to clean cyrus' mailboxes from viruses (I already 
> have mailscanner working on incoming mails).
> 
> I'm running cyrus imapd 2.1 on debian sarge and I've found very little 
> information about that matter.
> 
> The most usable solution I've found comes from this link :
> http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0404/0261.html
> 
> Maybe I've not looked at the good places but I'm surprised of having found so 
> few informations on that problem so I ask my question here.
> 
> How do you deal with the viruses that have slipped through your smtp antivirus 
> solution ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
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