On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:35:15 +0100 Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > clamav requires a mail file to begin with "From " to be recognised > > as a mail message. It is certainly not a good solution. > > Depends whether you want it to be a good mail scanner, or a good > anti-virus engine. > > I find ClamAV does an excellent job of detecting viruses; other tools > may be better at parsing files and unpacking various formats before > handing something to clam for diagnosis. > > Try Amavis or MailScanner perhaps? IMHO Clamav is excellent software. That is why we support it in our smtp-vilter software. We do, however, think that the solution to decide if a file is an e-mail message in libclamav based solely on the beginning of the file is a bit sloppy. Off course we do insert a line containing "From " at the beginning of every e-mail message we hand over to Clamav. But there should be better ways (RFC-822 compliant ways, to be exact) to detect if a file contains an e-mail message. Or at least it should be possible to affirmatively tell clamav that a file *is* an e-mail message. - Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
