From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 18 16:41:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316ED37B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0J0g6O63023; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:42:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0av) with ESMTP id f0J0g4N63013; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:42:04 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: earth.wnm.net: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:42:03 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Mason Harding , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-Virus for SMTP In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20010118132904.0259eb50@marble.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Check amavis in the ports. Works very well for me using sendmail and the > McAfee/NAI scanner. I know people who use it with qmail as well. > > ---Mike > > At 10:17 AM 1/18/01 -0800, Mason Harding wrote: > >I have a FreeBSD 4.2 e-mail server running Sendmail. I will probably soon > >be moving that to qmail. My question is this, can anyone recommend a good > >Anti-Virus scanner for SMTP? Nearly all of the client machines are on Win*. > > Amavis is fine if you're prepared to take a serious performance hit. If your server is already groaning under its load, forget it. It works very well though, even with McAfee (probably the last AV I'd use if the amavis port didn't default to it). -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message