Hardly useful.
One would expect the attachments to be MIME encoded.
You'll need to do some extra work (procmail?) before the
scan.
Nimrod Zimerman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:38:14PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> > I'm plannning to install a Linux machine which will be our mail server at my
> > work.
> >
> > My question: since there are so many viruses around for windows, and many users
> > simply don't follow any instructions you give them - is there an "anti virus"
> > which scans incoming/outgoing email for viruses that I can use with Linux?
>
> Two options:
>
> 1. I know that Eliashim has done some work in this direction (that is,
> porting the anti-virus to Unix). I don't know where this stands, though
> the last time I heard, it was already quite usable.
> Call them.
> (The reason I got involved has nothing to do with me wishing to purchase
> such a product, by the way).
>
> 2. DosEmu and F-prot. Assuming the amount of files checked isn't extreme, it
> shouldn't be a problem to setup a system that would use F-prot running in
> DosEmu to perform the scanning, and report back the results (even a silly
> batch file would do the trick, I'd say). This, given F-prot properly runs in
> DosEmu. I never tried.
> (F-prot is available free of charge for non-commercial usage, and at a
> ridiculously low charge for commercial usage, in the DOS version).
>
> Nimrod
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