On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Williams, Kevin wrote:
> Anti-virus tools which integrate *-directly-* into the MUA (such as Outlook) > will likely use the MUA's internal API to access messages and scan them > during the send/receive process. I believe this process is entirely > client-side and has no regard for what kind of server you're using. > > I've tried some of the virus filters for XMail, but I didn't see successful > results because they scan the message as a text file and MIME attachments > are base-64 encoded. I've tried to write my own which used MIME-specific > functions to extract attached files and scan them directly, quarantining > them if necessary. It works, pretty much, but I'm not proficient in Perl so > I hesitate to make it public. If you want to try it, just let me know - I > wrote it to handle F-Prot for DOS, F-Prot for Linux, and McAfee VirusScan. There nothing to be ashamed about posting source code. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
