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


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