Alex Shipp writes:
>
> >Does anyone have experience with MTA virus checking? All I heard of was
> >slowing down mail for a company up to two days. That may be simply an
> >inappropriate machine but it triggers all kinds of alarm in my head.
>
>
> We pass all our mail through 3 scanners. For an average sized mail,
> this takes about 5 seconds elapsed time.
>
FYI, there is a thread going on in the procmail mailing list
concerning using procmail to ship any and all attachments to
/dev/null. The message is delivered minus any attachments. So the
discussion goes, it is selective on a per user basis, (ie., Unix user,
pass attachments, MS, don't.) and only if the message is NOT from the
local domain.
I'm not so sure this is a good idea, but with the frailty of PC
secretary software, it might be justified.
So the discussion goes, it is done at the MUA delivery, so the MTA can
pass it off to other machines on the network that do the scan, cut,
and delivery.
John
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