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Subject: Re: simple extendable SMTP server (flamewar starter)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikhail Kruk" <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>
To: "MurrayTaylor" <taylorm@bytecraft.au.com>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: simple extendable SMTP server (flamewar starter)


> > Question:  why do you want to strip and replace attachments?
> > (If it is for viral scanning i am looking into amavis which
> > kicks all emails out through an external process typically your
> > scanner but i guess it could do any thing else)
>
> Thanks a lot! Looks like Amavis might be just what we need. I was under
> impression that Amavis is just an anti-virus.
> Of course replacing attachment with something else has a lof of great
> (and fun) uses... but we are thinking about coverting all Microsoft Office
> documents passing through the mail server to some other format which would
> be guaranteed virus-safe (i.e. not PDF:)
>
>
look at the amavis website for hte newest code which should give you
a clean install ... the one in ports last time i looked also tried to be
helpful by pulling in uvscan as a dependancy, which you may not want

www.amavis.org

cheers
mjt

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