What about quarantine? If you use postfix gateways and AV at that level you have all sorts of options on what to do with message. Even a combination of options.
I might as well throw this in since you are saying "let the debate begin". Why put the load of virus scanning on the same box all your pop3 and webmail traffic is going to be on? On servers with lots of traffic this would not be good. I can build SMTP gateways for dirt cheap and take load off the IMAIL server in addition to creating quite a bit of redundancy. The only drawback to doing this is you have to have a pretty good working knowledge of *nix and networking and dns etc etc... http://imgate.meiway.com/ Tries to make it easy for people though. You could easily add virus scanning on the IMGate box. I set it up a little different than IMGate, however, the concept is the same and it is a good place to start. On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:34:45 -0800, you wrote: >> For what it's worth, we used NAIs WebShield (the SMTP virus scanner) >> and were pleased for the most part. One of the nicest features is >> that it would 'clean' the message instead of simply blocking it. On >> the downside, WebShield too often would hang and consume 100% CPU - >> which of course prevented it from receiving any more mail which is a >> really bad thing for a mail server to do! > >Let the debate begin. > >Why would anyone want to clean an infected e-mail and then deliver the clean >version? > >I would guess that better than 95% of virus infected e-mails were sent by >the virus itself and therefore would not be a legit message in any respect. > >John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA >IT Manager, Network Engineer >RelianceSoft, Inc. >Fullerton, CA 92835 >www.reliancesoft.com > > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
