While I fully agree with Jeff on the lack of need for virus checking software (a wondefully self-supporting industry built on humanities favourite emotion - fear, and stupid software), the implementation requirements in evolution, an input<>output filter, are *already* met.
You can trivially hook a virus scanner, just as you can a spam filter, or a mail statistics engine, into evolution 1.1.x. In the future you will be able to hook a program which modifies the mail as well - this is a planned feature, and is probably only a days work (much less if we do some refactoring of the pgp code, or use guile for the filters). On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 04:21, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 07:15, Marcus Franke wrote: > > Am Fre, 2002-07-12 um 12.15 schrieb Anton J Aylward, CISSP: > > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 00:34, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Along the same lines, solving problems that are already solved is also a > > > > waste of time (if you want a virus scanner for your email, this is best > > > > done on the SERVER not the CLIENT). > > > > > > Damn Right! > > > And in a corporate setting the likelihood of a mail gateway or central > > > server is much greater. > > > > What about the home user then? Im pretty sure that some of my > > friends use Linux on their desktops, but I doubt that more than > > one or two beside me use fetchmail to get their mails.. > > Having client-side IMAP virus-scan filters in Evolution won't help you > here either. > > Please... just think 2 minutes. Just *2 minutes* about the virus problem > and you will conclude that the BEST and ONLY place to have this type of > filtering is server-side. As soon as it is client-side, it's too late. > If the virus can affect the client software, then you've just been > infected. Game over. > > > > > Windows users are used to mail clients that fetch the mails > > directly from the server.. You won't get them all to configure > > fetchmail and procmail an avmailgate.. > > You won't be able to get these people to virus scan either. Again, > another + for server-side filtering. > > > > > And the possibility to hook some antivirus application into evolution > > to scan for viruses in the mailbox will give place for companies to > > sell such solutions to the end-users that switch from one desktop to > > "our" desktop.. > > Yes, because after all this solves all the problems of viruses. This > does nothing but open a market for companies that would otherwise not > exist. How does this solve the problem of viruses? It doesn't. It has a > better chance of solving unemployment than it does anti-viruses (and it > won't solve unemployment either). > > Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey Stedfast > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
