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  • From: "John Broome" <jbroome AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Anti-Virus and IMAP
  • Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:00:49 -0500

On 2/20/06, Carol Thomson <cthomson AT topsailtech.com> wrote:
> To follow-up the virus discussion... Can anyone explain how
> anti-virus apps (Symantec, McAfee, BitDefender, etc) do or do not
> scan IMAP email. I realize that IMAP keeps the messages on the
> server and only headers are downloaded. But what about
> attachments and saving a message to a local folder? Do those
> files only get scanned when you do a system scan or do they get
> scanned when saved? Symantec and the others only claim to scan
> POP email - do they mean real-time only?


I have procmail set up to scan incoming messages before they get
delivered to the INBOX, same thing with spamassassin.

# Calls the clamAV scanner
:0fw
| /usr/local/scripts/clamfilter.pl

# If a virus is found, move it to a specific folder.
:0:
* ^X-Virus-Found: yes
.Viruses/




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