I've put together a virus filter for courier, based on Sam's perlfilter-example.pl along the general lines of Jason Haar's qmail-scanner-queue.pl. Although it doesn't interface with commercial virus scanning packages as does Harr's package, it does scan and quarantine email based on several combinations of regexp matches of headers, attachemnts and MIME types. Like qmail-scanner-queue.pl, it identifies viruses using a text virus definitions file which is easily configured. The program isn't terribly sophisticated with regard to identifying addresses associated with mailing lists, or poking into encoded attachments, but what with the incredible proliferation of worms and viruses on the Internet these days, you may find it useful if you administer a courier mail system and virus attachments are a problem.
I wrote this out of necessity since I'm migrating all may mail management from an old server running qmail to an new one running courier, and I couldn't find anything like this. My customers have come to count on my keeping this crap out of their mailboxes, and I feared that if I didn't have something in place, people would assume that if I let it through it must be safe. Big potential problem there :-( The virus filter is at http://www.fmp.com/downloads/couriervirusfilter-0.2.tar.gz Comments, suggestions, suggested patches, bug reports are all welcome. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | | _______________________________________________________________ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
