> > To some degree, though (as other recent threads have 
> pointed out) it's 
> > not designed to be used that way.
> 
> Things aren't so bad :-).
> 
> > It's designed to be used as, for
> > example, with your MTA to detect the viruses before they are 
> > delivered.

We already use sophie/sophos to scan mail passing through our mailhubs.
However, messages can find their way into mailboxes via IMAP/POP if users
copy messages from other systems. Those won't be picked up by the MTAs.

> > I don't know how good it's MIME capabilities are.
> 
> Quite good, actually. They are improved all the time, so you 
> may want to use CVS version for this (or wait for releasing 0.81).
> 
> Though I'm not sure about something you call "mbx format 
> mailbox files"
> as you contrast them with "standard unix mailbox files".

MBX format is an indexed text format that includes the indexing information
at the top of the file. Apart from additional headers to indicate message
boundaries I think it's pretty much the same as standard unix format. I
would think that any software that could handle the latter wrt demiming
could also handle mbx.

Thanks for the replies,

 Clive McDowell

Information Services
The Queen's University of Belfast

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