On the subject of receiving mail and viruses

[Erik Heil]

Sounds like a good package.  Know of any freely available virus scanning
engines?  Bc this may be a partial solution to the HTML suppression problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "'Georgina'" <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: On the subject of receiving mail and viruses


> Hi
>
> I thought that some of you might be interested in this package:
>
> Package: mailscanner
> Priority: optional
> Section: mail
> Installed-Size: 560
> Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 3.13.2-2
> Depends: exim | exim-tls | sendmail, tnef (>= 1.1.1), perl (>= 5.6.1),
libio-stringy-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libmailtools-perl, libmime-perl,
spamassassin (>= 2.11), libmail-audit-perl, unzip, ncftp | wget
> Suggests: f-prot-installer
> Filename: pool/main/m/mailscanner/mailscanner_3.13.2-2_all.deb
> Size: 120102
> MD5sum: 1ec06ce5abb9e19a55357d0c2115fe0b
> Description: An email virus scanner and spam tagger.
>  MailScanner is a freely distributable E-Mail gateway virus scanner
>  and spam detector. It uses sendmail or Exim as its basis, and a choice of
>  7 commercial virus scanning engines to do the actual virus scanning.
>  It can decode and scan attachments intended solely for Microsoft Outlook
>  users (MS-TNEF). If possible, it will disinfect infected documents and
>  deliver them automatically. It also has features which protect it against
>  Denial Of Service attacks.
>  .
>  Virus checking is disabled by default, spam checking is enabled by
default.
>  After installation, you can enable virus checking, write your own virus
>  scanner or install one of the supported commercial anti-virus packages.
>
>
>
> Gena
>
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