[TriLUG] sendmail early virus spam interception

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 14:16, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> didn't someone on the list recently say that it had something
> intercepting this stupid 'microsoft patch' virus before it
> got too deeply loaded onto the system?  istr someone saying they
> had sendmail shunting those away before spamassassin needed to
> waste time on them..  but now i can't find the message.
> 
> with my luck, it'll be a milter solution, and i haven't backported
> the rh9 sendmail to 7.2 yet.
> 
> btw, has anyone tried installing enlightenment on rh9?  that's
> the main thing blocking my upgrade..
> -- 
> #ken	P-)}

I'm using RH9 with Sendmail and MailScanner.  I used the auto-installer
for MailScanner and it worked great!

MailScanner is sort of a Mail Policy Enforcer.  I have it set to not
allow any attachments with filenames *.exe, *.com, *.scr, *.pif, etc... 
This strips out 90 - 95% of all viruses.

MailScanner will also run SpamAssassin for you and an anti-virus scanner
of your choice - you must supply the anti-virus scanner; but it does
work with Clam (the Open Source anti-virus scanner).

I would be happy to give a presentation on the install and configuration
of MailScanner with SpamAssassin and Clam, if folks are interested.

HtH,

Jon Carnes