On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 17:51, FemmeFatale wrote: > Brian Parish wrote: > > > > > > > ---- > > OK, following James' recommendation for MailScanner (I liked it when he > > said he just installed the RPM and it worked), I installed that and the > > Sophos virus scanner. Seems like it all just worked, but now I have a > > problem - nobody sends me any viruses! > > > > Anybody out there got a KLEZ infected message or something hanging > > around that you could send? Obviously I'm all linux here, so if the > > scanner isn't working, no harm will be done. Even more obviously - > > privately please - not to the list! ;-) > > > > TIA > > Brian > > if you look on McAfee's site I believe they have a file for a "fake" > Virus that will test any scanner. Its a simple file full of numbers & > letters...supposedly recognized as the Eichman Test *I think thats the > name*. > Just to close the lid on this one, virus scanning is working very nicely with this setup. James sent me one which was detected (as requested!) and I also followed Femme's lead, although not to McAfee. I found four variants of a harmless test file, all of which triggered the scanner at:
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm While I have little use for virus detection as there a no W$ clients doing e-mail on my network, I am tempted to leave it in place anyway as it automatically warns senders of infected messages. Anything that reduces the bandwidth wasted by this crap zooming around the internet must be a good thing I guess. Anyway, just to summarize the solution: Install fetchmail and fetchmailconf Run fetchmailconf - makes it easy to set things up Install imap - the pop3 server is set up by default Install MailScanner and virus checker of choice (Sophos, f-prot) Point your e-mail client at your server Done! Note this is JUST for inbound mail. That's all my customer needed, so I'm keeping it simple. Brian
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