On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:01:10PM +0800, Dudley F. Ca�as wrote: > Hi guys > Im using sendmail on redhat 6.2 clone p3 box > my concern right now is that virus attachment and malicious code might > infect my server
It won't infect your server. See below for a thorough explanation. > Whats the best virus protection for Linux email server? > Intelligence and knowledge. :) That's the best protection. Don't go around doing unwise things as the root user. Someone who hasn't read Rick Moen's FAQ. Go read it at http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/ Email attachments cannot infect a Linux box because 1. most of them depend on Microsoft Outlook, 2. even if one was specifically designed to target Linux, MUA's available for Linux are not possessed of the unique brain damage in Outlook, and 3. even if a single user got a hypothetical email virus that somehow subverted the particular mail client he or she was using, it would only affect him or her, because of the Unix security model (while it's not as good as it could be, it's a fair sight better than anything we have in most Microsoft OSes). Anti-virus software is however deployed if your Linux box is acting as a mail server for a lot of clients that run lesser operating systems and run such brain damaged mail user agent software that does many foolish things for you. Your Linux box however, will not be affected by passage of such infected mail. It's just mail to your box. Some people run such scanners and attachment defangers and virus scanners at their mail servers here; I believe you already have some useful responses if this is your concern. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
