Topic: Virus scan and disclaimer

[Christo Pretorius]

Hi,

I'd like to know 2 things regarding e-smith v3.1:

1) Is there any virus scanning software available for e-smith and if so,
    where can I download/buy it?

2)I'd like to add a disclaimer to each message which is send out. Is this
   possible and if so, how?

Many thanks in advance.

Christo Pretorius   jc_p@hotmail.com

[Charlie Brady]

Christo Pretorius wrote:

> I'd like to know 2 things regarding e-smith v3.1:
>
> 1) Is there any virus scanning software available for e-smith
> and if so, where can I download/buy it?
>
> 2)I'd like to add a disclaimer to each message which is send
> out. Is this possible and if so, how?

Both things are possible, but neither will be provided by E-smith in the immediate future.

If you wish to provide these you will need to make the modifications yourself. You will find documentation to assist you at http://www.e-smith.org/custom, and at http://www.qmail.org/.

regards

Charlie

[Brian High]

Several vendors offer command-line version of their
anti-virus products.

I have had good success with:

1. http://www.antivirus.com (Trend Micro FileScan, iscan)

2. http://www.sophos.com (Sophos Sweep, sweep)

3. http://www.antivir.de (H+BEDV AntiVir, antivir)

4. http://www.nai.com (McAfee VirusScan for Unix, uvscan)

All offer a free version ... but only (1) and (3) offer a completely
free and full-featured version for linux.  (3) requires updating the
free license once a year.  Only (1) has a web-based interface
and automatic updates.  The others can be given automated
updates with some standard Unix/linux tricks.

All 4 work with the mail-scanner package: scan4virus.
http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/

This package works with the e-mail server that comes with
e-smith: qmail.

All of this takes manual configuration and some linux
expertise.  They are not easy for novices to set
up by any means.  (Scan4virus may require some
additional software installed which is
available for free from RedHat:  http://www.redhat.com)

The results, however, are fantastic, as all
incoming and outgoing e-mail can be scanned and
you can also have certain file attachment
types (like .VBS) be automatically refused.

--Brian High
brian@happygardening.com