[ILUG] Anti-virus filters and sendmail

[Dave Rynne]

Take a look at:
http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/

might help...

I looked at it a few months ago and it would only scan mails that 
were being locally delivered (or was it relayed mails only ?). 
Anyway, they've prob done some more work on it since so it might 
do what you're looking for. There's been a few other attempts at
this but that's the most functional that I've come across to date.

ymmv ('n all that..)


Dave

) 
) I've thought about this for a while and no simple solution
) popped up...
) 
) I'd like to run _every_ message that goes through sendmail
) on a particular machine to be virus scanned.  Network Associates
) have a Linux version of their scanner that will do the anti-virus 
) part, but there are two remaining steps:
) 
) 1. A script to break apart a message's body and attachments 
)    and scan each part.
) 2. Sendmail rules/patches to send each message off for scanning.
) 
) I'm sure some Perl hacker here can do number 1 in their sleep.
) 
) But what's the best way to do number 2?  Does 8.9.x have
) provisions for running arbitrary programs over messages?
) 
) Could I direct all incoming messages to a custom mailer that would
) do the scan and submit the message back to sendmail (perhaps 
) using a different .cf file) and send it on it's merry way.  I'm afraid that
) this might lose envelope information.
) 
) Has anyone here done anything like this?
) 
) Later,
) Kenn
) 
) 
) 
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