Anti-virus tools which integrate *-directly-* into the MUA (such as Outlook) will likely use the MUA's internal API to access messages and scan them during the send/receive process. I believe this process is entirely client-side and has no regard for what kind of server you're using.
I've tried some of the virus filters for XMail, but I didn't see successful results because they scan the message as a text file and MIME attachments are base-64 encoded. I've tried to write my own which used MIME-specific functions to extract attached files and scan them directly, quarantining them if necessary. It works, pretty much, but I'm not proficient in Perl so I hesitate to make it public. If you want to try it, just let me know - I wrote it to handle F-Prot for DOS, F-Prot for Linux, and McAfee VirusScan. Good luck, Sean. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Sean Pau To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/10/2002 5:06 PM Subject: [xmail] Email Virus Scanning question Hi For virus scanning requirement, the option I see from xmail examples on website is to write a filter, and use anti-virus software command line to scan the mail message. 1. If for example I installed Norton Anti-Virus on W2K which has an auto email scanning option. Any idea if this auto scanning feature achieve the same as writing a virus-scanning filter? Using MS Outlook to retrieve and send email, I can see Norton Anti-Virus scan outgoing and incoming email messages. It looks like it is watching over SMTP and POP ports. 2. The examples I see use F-Prot anti virus software. Have anyone try using other product such as Norton , TrendMicro etc? Thanks, Xmail Newbie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
