I have found that using Exiscan with Exim as well as the Sophie/Sophos Antivirus combination on the relays has been a wonderful tool to stop this virus menance. As well as using Spamassassin as a tool is wonderful but I don't know how well Razor works anymore it used to be a big thing but its now something that is up in the air.
Cheers, Aly. On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:33, Gerry Doris wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael George wrote: > > > I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server > > in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail > > server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming > > email on the server and I've never done that before... > > > > I've found several projects at freshmeat that claim to work with sendmail and > > do virus scanning. I was hoping maybe some of the users on this list could > > give me their recommendations to help me narrow the search. > > > > We'll be using a POP3 server for the windoze clients to get their mail and > > sendmail for receiving incoming mail. Initially the server will be for > > internal mail only, but eventually, the ISP will be the initial recipient of > > all company mail and then throw it over the wall to the internal sendmail > > server (which will only accept SMTP connections from internal hosts or the > > single IP address outside. If this makes a difference... > > > > Thanks for all your 2ยข-worth (in advance :) > > > > -Michael > > I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly. > Next install razor and then spamassassin. Those should go in very easily. > This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out > MailScanner. > > MailScanner works seamlessly with all of the above. It doesn't require > any changes to sendmail/Exim and can be installed with an rpm. You will > need to select a virus engine and MailScanner works with about a dozen of > them. I highly recommend F-Prot. > > F-Prot is free for home/non-commerical use and for commercial users only > charges per server. The other virus scanners charge per seat and it can > get very expensive. They update their virus files every few days and > MailScanner provides a cron script to download them automatically. > > There's also a great mailscanner-mrtg rpm that will allow you to view > several graphs of your setup using your web browser. You can see server > load, # of messages arriving, size of messages, ethernet traffic, cpu %, > etc. This is for each day, week, month, and year. > > This may sound like a lot of work but if you do it one step at a time it > pretty easy. > > -- > Gerry > > "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Aly S.P Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student and System Administrator ORS Servers "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list