If you are running a standard AV program (one that isn't designed for a mailserver), you can have it scan the spool directory -- but be *very* careful in doing this, and be sure you know what the consequences are.
-Scott
At 09:22 AM 9/8/2003, Amy Cozine wrote:
Disable all Imail folders - or just the spool and users folders? ~Amy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] What is the Purpose of Imail AV if You have NAV Corp?
> > > Are you supposed to disable scanning of the Imail Folder and sub > > > folders in Norton Corporate and use Imail AV instead? > > > > Yes, absolutely. > >And I assume there is a reason other than Ipswitch and Symantec make more >money?
A mailserver AV program requires 3 pieces: [1] A mailserver, [2] A program that can detect viruses in files on the hard drive, and [3] The "glue" to combine the two (decoding attachments, hooking into the mailserver and the virus scanner, sending notifications, etc.). NC just has #2 and part of #3. Essentially, what it is saying is "We'll find every known virus in any file on the hard drive, and we may be able to find some viruses in some E-mail files." If that's good enough for you, and you know the potential pitfalls (such as legitimate E-mail in .mbx files being deleted, and no record of lost E-mail), you don't need anything else.
Otherwise, you pay the bigger bucks for a program that is designed specifically to incorporate #1, #2, and #3 above, and that does claim to catch viruses in .eml files. That can be Symantec's NAVIEG (which combines #1, #2, and #3), IMail AntiVirus (which uses IMail as #1, and Symantec components as #2 and #3), Declude Virus (which uses IMail as #1, our components for #2, a desktop scanner for #3), or another program like NAVIEG (combining #1, #2, and #3).
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