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[Patrick von der Hagen <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:
> Hi, 
> now I have to add an antivirus to scan the attachment of my lists. I want to
> try TrendMicro. Someone can help me, tell me how I have to configure and what
> arguments I have to give at sympa.conf.
Basically, sympa-documentation has a paragraph about it, which can be 
found at http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node7.html#Antivirus_plug-in and 
http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node22.html

However, personally I consider AV-scanning to be the job of the MTA 
which is run before sympa. It is more efficient to get rid of malware 
ASAP and most important, you can reject malware during the 
SMTP-transaction instead of accepting it and worring what to do about 
it... contacting the (probably forged) sender? Contacting the recipient? 
Putting it in a quarantine-area for manual review?


PS: when doing a search for "virus" at the sympa-Homepage, I get several 
results, which are totally worthless... I suppose htdig hasn't done a 
refresh for month? Or years?

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Patrick von der Hagen
RZ Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH)
Postmaster