On Saturday, March 11, 2006 2:32 AM +0100 Michael Grant
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Between Mailscanner and Amavisd-new, it seems we need one or the other
of these programs to recursively dig into and possibly uncompress a
message with attachments to be able to virus scan it completely. Does
Mailscanner do as effective a job as Amavisd in this regard?
I'm using MIMEDefang and ClamAV which advertise this feature. I don't
recall how the responsibility is split.
When I installed Amavisd a couple years ago now, I seem to remember a
load of dependencies on things like rar, tar, unzip...etc. I didn't
see a lot of these when I compiled Mailscanner. (Unzip, yes, but not
some of the other ones).
Without those, how would you expect nested archives to be cracked apart? I
would rather have experts in archives provide those libraries than have the
AV and scanner people have to re-invent wheels for which they're not the
domain experts.
