To effect an anti-virus email gateway you will need:
1. amavis, amavisd, or amavisd-new 2. the linux version of your favorite (and supported) anti virus scanner. It seems that you have chosen norman. As long as it runs in standalone mode (running the program in command line works), and any one of #1 supports it, that will be ok. 3. an MTA that supports any one of #1 (read the docs of your chosen amavis flavor). Don't use sendmail. You will regret that later when your box gets compromised. Use either one of Exim, Postfix or Qmail. If all three are present, then you need to configure your MTA (#3) to daisy chain to #1, and #1 to run your AV Scanner and then daisy chain back to #3. If you read the docs of #1 you will know how to do that. Flow is: inbound mail -> MTA (#3) -> amavis (#1) -> AV SCANNER (#2) -> back to #3 -> deliver or bounce mail depending on results of AV SCANNER. On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ina Patricia Lopez wrote: > Hi! > Im using RH 7.3 on my box. So I should install amavisd-new so that it > could use Norman AV to scan emails? Pardon my ignorance but cant > Amavis clean infected emails? I mean will it work as a standalone AV > for emails? wont i be needing other AV products like Norman, Sophos and > the like? > thanks, > ina patricia > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
