On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:42:37AM +0200, Brandon Friedman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> What I would like to do is try and get it working on e-smith. I only
> want to test trend (for now!). If anyone has setup or wants to try set
> it up, please let me know so we can start exchange research note etc! I
> have been told that devinfo list is the best place to raise this question?
> [...]
Devinfo is a great place to raise this. We (e-smith) have virus scanning
as a high priority, but couldn't get it into 4.1 If people keep the
discussion open in devinfo, we can provide hints and pointers. I provided
some a while back on the list as to where and how to insert a virus scanner
using Obtuse SMTPD - that's one of the reasons we now use it instead
of qmail-smtpd (the others are extra SPAM/relay screening and licencing
issues).
Unfortunately some virus scanners ship with their own SMTP listener, and
it just isn't sensible to undo all of the work that has been done to provide
a carefully constructed secure SMTP listener to insert a binary SMTP
listener with unknown quirks. The virus scanner _MUST_ run behind the
security of the Obtuse SMTP chroot() jail.
The easiest and cleanest to integrate will be a scanner which acts in a
pipeline, or can be called as a command with a file to scan as an argument.
Obtuse SMTPD already collects each mail item as an individual file and
we provide the option to call a program on each file before injecting
it into the mail system.
Gordon
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