On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 22:07 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Frank Elsner <fr...@moltke28.b.shuttle.de> (Mo 12 Apr 2010 19:18:53 CEST): > > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:06:34 +0200 Andreas Schulze wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I use currently a non-dovecot pop3 proxy which has the ability > > > to scan all passing mails for viruses. And I like dovecot. > > > > I like dovecot too. But I think virus-scanning is for the MTA. > > IMAP allows for other ways „into“ the mail storage than via the MTA.
I agree with Frank, virus scanning, and IMHO spam filtering is the job for the MTA side of things, reject it before it gets near the mail storage.
