From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jan 19 5:31:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jamus.xpert.com (jamus.xpert.com [199.203.132.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0CB37B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:31:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from roman (helo=localhost) by jamus.xpert.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #5) id 14Jbdb-0003kf-00; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:31:31 +0200 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:31:31 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: Subject: Re: Anti-Virus for SMTP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message