Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:52:24 +0200 From: Emre Bastuz <info@emre.de> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Some thoughts on Antivirus + LDAP + Mailrouting Message-ID: <1020761544.3cd795c8097c8@webmail.emre.de>
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Hi, Iīve just read the thread on virus scanning and come up with some ideas. What do you guys think of the following scenario for an LDAP based solution, that enables the customer to decide whether to check for virii or not and that should keep the machine load low on the main smtp server. Letīs say you have a mailrouter, this oneīs visible to the outside world. The mailrouter is connected to an LDAP server which contains the info, whether the user has booked the virus scanning feature or not, and on which machine the actual mail account is located. Then there is the virus scanning server. Processing might be like this: 1. incoming mails go to the mailrouter 2. an ldap query is made, in case the user does not want virus protection the mail is delivered to the machine with the account 3. else the mail is forwarded to the machine running the antivirus software 4. after the check is done, another ldap query is made to determine where the mailbox is located 5. the mail is delivered Pros: - the AV software is one a single server and does only process mails for users who explicitly want and pay for this feature - ldap + mailrouting seems to be quite common in the isp world, so no new infrastructure/technology is needed - the feature of av scanning can easily be turned on/off on a per account basis Cons: ? Has any of you implemented such things ? Any objections ? Hints ? Thoughts ? Regards, Emre -- Emre Bastuz info@emre.de http://www.emre.de UIN: 561260 PGP Key ID: 0xAFAC77FD ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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