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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:31:31 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
To:        Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Anti-Virus for SMTP
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101191531000.13127-100000@jamus.xpert.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101181839140.8294-100000@earth.wnm.net>

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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Alex Charalabidis wrote:

> 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).

It defaults to uvscan since it's the only antivirus in the ports tree
(AFAIK).

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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