Christian,
Regarding your message dated: Monday, April 10, 2000...
CD> What I am looking for though is having the scanner actually scan the
CD> mail on it's way in (or out for that matter) and intervene if they are
CD> infected (some scanners also tag the mails as well with some text
CD> telling they are clean).
I know just the thing to do this although there is one area of
'overlap' which I'll explain in a second...
There is a product called "Invisimail" which is designed more for the
invisible encryption/decryption of messages that you send and receive.
It uses the RPK algorithm which is basically as good as the PGP
algorithm since they both use more-or-less the same mathematical
problem as their basis. However, since TB! has builtin support for
PGP this is not such a bonus. However, it does also have builtin
anti-virus support and it automatically 'quarentines' infected mail in
a separate area to avoid system contamination.
The way invisimail works is quite elegant and is suitable for
(probably) any mail client that uses POP3 or IMAP. Basically,
invisimail sets up a proxy on your machine which you give the details
of your POP3/IMAP/SMTP servers to. You tell your mail client (TB! for
example) that your POP3/IMAP/SMTP servers have the address...
<proxy>.yourmachine.com (or whatever!)
Then when you try to send/receive mail TB! sends its signals/requests
to invisimail believing it to be a true server and invisimail
'invisibly' passes these across to the real servers. It it detects
that you are sending/receiving from another invisimail user it will
automatically compress and/or encrypt the messages/attachments too.
I tried the demo version of this last year and was highly impressed.
It really does work invisibly and it did catch one of those 'worm'
virus mails (Melissa I think it was called) sent out by some poor
person using Outlook's address book who was therefore unaware they had
done so...
You may or may not like it yourself but if you want to find out more
goto...
http://www.invisimail.com/
Cheers,
Mark
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