.zip,.exe attachments and spam assassin

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed Nov 23 02:06:05 UTC 2005


--On Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:39 AM -0600 Les Mikesell 
<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> An even better approach is to run the free clam antivirus scanner
> along with spamasassin.  One way is to use MimeDefang as a wrapper
> to control all the scanning you want to do.  Mine has caught
> close to a thousand Sober.U's since yesterday.

I second this recommendation. SA is great for spam but the wrong tool for 
viruses. You want ClamAV for that. It's in Extras. I, too, run it from 
MIMEDefang under sendmail, but you should be able to find an equivalent for 
postfix.





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