I've been using qmail-scanner for a couple years now and like it better than any commercial email scanner/gateway that I've evaluated to date. I've used it with H+BEDV's scanner for Linux and am currently using it with Sophie(uses Sophos's SAVI). There is one real simple feature, that I add myself every time I upgrade, that I feel is missing from qmail-scanner. A pause function that skips running the external virus scanner(s) until you unpause. I've added a "-p" flag to qmail-scanner-queue.pl that allows me to do this. Very handy for when you're upgrading your virus scanner software and don't want to shutdown qmail or have it return temporary failures. I used to edit my run file, comment out QMAILQUEUE and restart qmail. Got kind of tiresome though. This does, however, leave your guard down for the short time your doing the upgrade, but is better than dealing with grumpy users that think things are broke because the mail server returns a standard temporary failure, try again later message. All my "-p" implementation does is create an empty file in /var/spool/qmailscan when one doesn't exist and delete it when it does exist. init_scanners() checks for the existence of this empty file and returns if it exists, hence skipping the call to scanloop().
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