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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave MacMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] An Anti-Virus idea.... (hooks)
> Here t'is:
>
> http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20000517-DM01.htm
> IMail - How can I tie an external filter program into IMail
>
> Dave
>
>
> In reply to 17 May message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> >Bob would you please announce its availability on the list
> >when it is done?
>
> >Thanks!
>
> >At 12:48 PM 05/17/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >>I sent the info to the guy who manages the database this
> >>morning. So I would expect to see it within a week.
> >>
> >>Bob
> >>
> >>In reply to 17 May message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >>
> >>>You said:
> >>>>Also, hooks to tie AV programs in, they exist and we're
> >>>>working on a knowledge base article now.
> >>
> >>>When will this article be ready? I'm very interested.
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Robert Stull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May
> >>>17, 2000 7:55 AM
> >>>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] An Anti-Virus idea....
> >>
> >>
> >>>>_Shouldn't_ be a problem.
> >>>>
> >>>>1. Web Messaging reads the same mailbox as POP3/IMAP4.
> >>>>2. The incoming messages _don't_ bypass the scanners because
> >>>> they come in through the normal SMTP services (SMTPD32).
> >>>>3. The outgoing messages _don't_ bypass the scanning process
> >>>> because Web Messaging uses IMail1.exe to pass the
> >>>> messages through the normal SMTP queue.
> >>>>4. Web Messaging _doesn't_ create HTML messages only text.
> >>>>
> >>>>Also, hooks to tie AV programs in, they exist and we're
> >>>>working on a knowledge base article now.
> >>>>
> >>>>Bob
> >>>>
> >>>>In reply to 17 May message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Just an observation here that kind of ties two threads
> >>>>>together. Someone was commenting earlier about
> >>>>>attachments in webmail not be intercepted by the AV
> >>>>>scanner. I didn't see any mention of the reason
> >>>>>(maybe is so obvious that everyone thinks everyone
> >>>>>already knows it and doesn't want to look foolish, but
> >>>>>I'll do it - I'm not proud {bg}).
> >>>>
> >>>>>The web mail interacts directly with IMail - bypassing
> >>>>>all the gateways, scanners, etc between it and the
> >>>>>mean nasty world out there. Unless Ipswitch puts
> >>>>>hooks into IMail to support AV scanning, this will be
> >>>>>a big hole in your defenses.
> >>>>
> >>>>>I don't have any solutions (yet), but I thought I'd
> >>>>>throw this out.
> >>>>
> >>>>>Rocky
> >>>>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 12:48 AM
> >>>>>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] An Anti-Virus idea....
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>There seems to be some great AV engines already designed,
> >>>>what they did is
> >>>>>>license these engines and write the interface to Exchange.
> >>>>The company is
> >>>>>>Sybari and it won't work on IMail, but I thought perhaps
> >>>>someone on this
> >>>>>>list could figure how to make, Sophos, Norman, Norton, or
> >>>>NAI hook into
> >>>>>>IMail.
> >>>>
> >>>>>At this point, there are no hooks in Imail for av
> >>>>>scanners. But that doesn't matter, imo, because the
> >>>>>av scanner should be inserted in the mail flow
> >>>>>upstream from Imail, and in a separate dedicated
> >>>>>machine. The AV scanners are dedicated to AV, not
> >>>>>anti-spam (although GFI MailEssentials has some
> >>>>>anti-spam featuers) so to get a total,
> >>>>>whiter-than-white mail infrasture, you need something
> >>>>>like this:
> >>>>
> >>>>>1. Internet gateway relay with agressive antispam
> >>>>>features (http://IMGate.MEIway.com).
> >>>>
> >>>>>(btw, Dusty Carden at NetEase.net got his first IMGate
> >>>>>machine running Tuesday night)
> >>>>
> >>>>>2. av scanner relay of your choice, content scanner.
> >>>>
> >>>>>3. Imail
> >>>>
> >>>>>This keeps the functions in separate boxes, spreads
> >>>>>the load for unlimited scalablility (you can build any
> >>>>>number of 1., 2., 3.) and flexiblity and reliabiilty.
> >>>>>It keeps the functions "loosely coupled" across the
> >>>>>SMTP protocol, avoiding tight coupling and hooking
> >>>>>within one machine.
> >>>>
> >>>>>Len
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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