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Re: Virus filter

2003-08-25 18:40:33
On 25 Aug 2003 at 20:03, Homer Wilson Smith wrote:


 You know it would be *EXTREMELY* useful if someone knowledgeable
would/could write up a detailed technical FAQ on how to block virii
at both the procmail and sendmail levels. 

Ditto. I had a sendmail virus filtering recipe that worked fairly well 
but I wasn't able to figure out how to catch viruses further down in 
multi-part messages. As best I can figure, sendmail was ignoring those 
as being part of the message body rather than headers. So I switched 
back to procmail.

I noticed a post here the other day from someone who had a sendmail 
recipe for filtering body content rather than just headers. I want to 
play with that when I have time. I'd like to catch obvious spam and 
virus-laden stuff before procmail runs, which would save overhead and 
also because sendmail rejects unwanted mail and gives an appropriate 
message to the originating server on the fly.

Richard Dean


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