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  • From: Carol Thomson <cthomson AT topsailtech.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 19:14:50 -0500

John Broome wrote:

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/
---

You are doing this on the server, right? SpamAssasin is run on my server, but that is all. I want to catch viruses on that main Windows machien I use to access this email account. So again, to what degree does Symantec, McAfee, BitDefender anti-virus scan messages and attachments with IMAP (using Thunderbird but I don't think that matters)?

Thanks,
Carol

Carol






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