On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:42:04AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, >
Hi, > I have to build a new mail relay host, and would like to use spamd and > smtpd on OpenBSD. I'm required to provide antivirus scanning of mail > contents, however. Has anyone attached any antivirus software to this > combination? > As far as I know, this isn't doable yet. smtpd lacks one of two things to be able to cooperate with an antivirus: 1- be able to hand over data to an external application during the transaction, which it cannot do yet. 2- be able to store incoming mails in a temporary queue where an external app can do the processing before it is added to the real queue. I have ideas for 1- and 2-, but it's not trivial work so don't expect to see it coming very soon. At least 2- requires making huge changes to the queue which I'm not willing to make before some basic features are fixed first. Gilles -- Gilles Chehade
