[NTLUG:Discuss] MTA ANtiVirus (was "Mail Question")

[Cameron, Thomas]

Anyone here actually use Amavis with Sendmail?  How do you like it?  How hard was it to set up?

Thanks!
--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
(972) 997-9641

The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer, Bank of America. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Jay Urish
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:13 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Mail Question
> 
> 
> You are dead on...
> I don't see this trash anymore.. Look into Vexira antivirus 
> for mailservers
> All that junk gets pinched off at the pass.
> 
> 
> At 12:57 PM 4/27/2004, you wrote:
> >I have a desktop running Mandrake 9.0, which I use for general stuff,
> >including reading email.  It is always kept up to date, and 
> it is connected
> >through a SMC router to a DSL line.  It is on 24/7, and 
> serves my website
> >with Apache. My ISP, SBC, uses pop for receiving, stmp for 
> sending.  Kmail is
> >my current mail reader.
> >
> >Lately I have been receiving notices like the following.
> >
> >"From: postmaster at srcp.com
> >To: cfgraf at swbell.net
> >Date:  Today 04:16:49 am
> >This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
> >Delivery to the following recipients failed.
> >dwards at srcp.com
> >
> >Encapsulated message
> >Postcard
> >From: cfgraf at swbell.net
> >To: dwards at srcp.com
> >Date: Today 04:17:05 am
> >Hello!
> >Here is the document.
> >Yours sincerely
> >postcard0.pif
> >End of encapsulated message"
> >
> >I do not know this person, and have never sent anything like 
> this.  One of
> >these shows up about daily now in my in-box.  The messages 
> always contain a
> >virus.  No sent mail like this shows in my Sent Mail folder.
> >
> >Am I correct in assuming that my email address is in 
> someone's Outlook 
> >address
> >book, and a virus is sending out copies of itself using my 
> address as the
> >"From" line? Or has my box been hacked, and someone is 
> sending out viri
> >through it?
> >
> >Thank you for any ideas.
> >
> >Chuck
> >
> >
> >
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