On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 09:53, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> At 11:07 AM 7/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:00, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > > And now let us all remember RAV, an excellent anti-virus and spam tool
> > that
> > > is pretty much dead for us UNIX-types. Man I love that software. Too bad
> > > Microsoft bought them. I need to start finding an alternative myself..
> >
> >All this talk about AV sw for Unix makes me ask: are these only as
> >an adjunct to MTAs that then send the email to Windows MUAs?
>
> This kind of software more or less plugs into the MTA and accepts, rejects,
> or modifies the mail before it is stored. It doesn't matter what the MUA
> is. Of course, there have been exploits for Elm and PINE as well, so I am
> sure that most UNIX mail-server based AV and malware-blocking software
> handles a large range of issues. (Or one would hope!)
>
> As I've noted on general@brlug.net before, Evolution is quickly becoming
> the Outlook for Linux for good or bad.
Is there a URL for the archives, and an approximate date when
that thread took place?
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