[PLUG] On the topic of spam & MS-virii

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:15, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:13, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> > The right answer to the email virus problem:
> > http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt
> 
> *A* right answer, perhaps.. but to label the use of one MTA, one virus
> scanner, and one configuration "the right answer" seems very...
> monopolistic.  ;-)
> 
> I'd be interested to hear if anybody has a way to convince Postfix to
> reject viruses and/or spams at SMTP-time rather than always accepting
> the nasties.

I don't follow the Postfix list closely anymore, but I last heard there
was experimental support in the snapshots for using the content_filter
mechanism at SMTP-time. You have to be careful with that though; some
SMTP servers have rather low time-outs, so you'd have to only use
reasonably fast checks.

Wil
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