[TriLUG] sendmail early virus spam interception

[Jason Tower]

> 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.

there's a similar program called amavis (actually amavis-new) that does 
the same thing.  judging from the docs, mailscanner was written with 
sendmail in mind, although it will also work with postfix.  amavis-new 
was written with postfix in mind, but will also work with sendmail.  
all hail the choices available with open source!

jason