Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 07:58:26 -0500 From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> To: <Franky-Mueller@web.de>, "Thomas Farrell" <info@mvcg.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sophos anti virus and mailmonitor on freebsd Message-ID: <00d101c4418f$61be5990$0201a8c0@dredster> References: <000a01c4412e$b4a72350$0b0a0a0a@neonduron> <36104.213.146.107.65.1085379147.squirrel@webmail.uglygerman.de>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Mueller" <Franky-Mueller@web.de> To: "Thomas Farrell" <info@mvcg.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:12 AM Subject: Re: sophos anti virus and mailmonitor on freebsd > I wonder who should ever need mailmonitor in FreeBSD???? > Here we are running Sophos on several FBSD machines and we use amavis to make it scan and filter > our mails. That works perfectly and so I see no need for mailmonitor at all. > > Greetz, > > Frank > While it is true that Sophos sweep will run under Amavis, and that's all you need, if you're processing mail with that system, then it's considered a mail gateway to them legally and you have to purchase the mail gateway version to legally use it. Trust me on this, I went round and around with this problem because when I ordered Sophos for FreeBSD a couple of years back, I specifically asked about the ability to use it on our mail server and everything was good. This was before they offered their mail gateway system. Earlier this year, our license was about to expire so I went to renew and was shocked to hear that I was now in violation of my license. I informed them that it was running on my smtp server, and was then informed that their licensing had changed and now, I needed to purchase the product for the mail gateway. All I needed was to be able to run sweep, but we were going to be forced to buy the Enterprise edition for mail gateways in order to continue using it. A Network Server != SMTP Server to them. I see no reason to purchase the entire mail gateway package as it's not necessary, however to be legal with them, it is. Hence the reason that we switched to another av package and pulled sweep from our server. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
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