[NTLUG:Discuss] Anti-Virus/Anti-Spamming for Sendmail on Linux

[Bobby Sanders]

Re: Anti Spam.  Check out:

http://spamassassin.org/

I have been using it, as a user, for some time and really like it.  I
think it is included in RH 8.0

Bobby

--On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:04:10 -0600, JR Newsletters <jrnewsletters at jcrcomputing.com> said:

  JN> Bob Byron wrote:
  >> I am using RedHat 8.0.
  >> 
  >> I want to add anti-virus and anti-spamming software to our email
  >> server.  I am currently using sendmail.  To clarify, this is
  >> going on the server and not on individual machines.

  JN> I'll be interested in this solution as well.  I've been
  JN> researching adding an anti-virus program to my sendmail program,
  JN> but I'm not happy with what I've found.

  JN> The only really free solutions involved clam antivirus, or
  JN> amavis antivirus....however you need to get a forwarding script
  JN> to link the antivirus program to sendmail/procmail's handling.
  JN> I've been trying a couple of scripts, but they don't play well
  JN> together at all.  The other antivirus solutions I've found
  JN> involved some $$$/yr., and, usually, two copies of sendmail
  JN> running while adding some sort of cryptic rule to sendmail.cf
  JN> (whatever happened to changing sendmail.mc instead?).

  JN> I like clam antivirus....It even updates it definitions base at
  JN> times you specify (I do mine twice a day).  I keep hearing
  JN> conflicting opinions though for if clam antivirus is ready or
  JN> not yet to be used in any type of a 'work' environment.




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