Re: [Nolug] Spam and Virus Protection

Milter is a sendmail API that allows an external program, like MIMEDefang,
to manipulate various things throughout the SMTP transaction. MIMEDefang
is one of the most popular milters. The milter interface is written in
C, but most of the rest is written in perl. You can do such things as
rename attachments, strip attachments, replace attachments with a URL,
change/add/remove headers, add/change/remove receipients, log things to
mysql, or pretty much anything else you can think of. And external
programs, like Spamassassin and clamav, easily plug into MIMEDefang to
let you do the spam/virus scanning. The config is a perl script, so it
helps to know perl and those regular expressions. The author (David Skoll)
has a commercial product, Can-It Pro, that i think has a web interface so
you don't need to know all that perl.

-ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Brian D. Mayeur wrote:
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> Sorry I just piped in, but I was not aware this was available.  I am
> running FreeBSD with Sendmail as my mail server.  I do have a windows
>  box with MacAfee, but I would also like to setup a virus scan on my
> mail server as well.  I already downloaded and installed clamav on my
> machine.  What else do I need in order for it to scan outgoing and
> incoming emails?  Will it protect my windows box?  Are there any
> other suggestions about controlling mail through my mail server?  I
> heard SpamAssasin (that one is obvious), but what does MIMEdefang do?
>  Thanks!
> 
> Brian D. Mayeur
> bmayeur@bmay.net
> www.bmay.net
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