Subject: Re: Pine & antivirus

From: Ralph Slooten <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:41:18 +0200 (CEST)

Thanks, will check it out. It's not because I fear of getting infected, but
to give an example, I received about 25 e-mails from family a while ago,
all infected with the virus. If I had forwarded any of these, I would have
spread it (yes, it's a sad fact that almost all my friends / family use
M$). That is what I want to prevent, and also to warn them about it ASAP.

Greetings

Ralph

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Ralph Slooten wrote:
>
> > I use fetchmail to get e-mails from my POP3 server, and use pine to filter
> > the mailing list entries. I don't use procmail.
>
> actually, if you're on any kind of modern linux - yes you do. you just
> don't know it.
>
> it goes
>
> fetchmail -> local sendmail -> procmail
>
> ie, it isn't sendmail that writes the mail to your INBOX, it's
> procmail.
>
> sendmail is an MTA
> procmail is an MDA (mail delivery agent).
>
> > gives a warning when trying to save an E-mail attachment with a virus or
> > something, or opening a message or something?
>
> go to www.amavis.org. they have a filter for sendmail ( very tricky to
> setup though) that passes incoming mail to a filter (eg a virus
> scanner) and links to Linux Virus scanning products.
>
> Alternatively you could use procmail to run all incoming mail through
> the Virus scanner.
>
> > Any ideas woiuld be appreciated :-)
>
> um.... why do you /need/ a Virus scanner if you use linux? :)
>
> > Thanks
> > Ralph
>
> --paulj
>

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From: Ralph Slooten <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:08:01 +0200 (CEST)

> fetchmail -> local sendmail -> procmail

Ummmm, I don't get it... I'm using Mandrake 8.0, DO NOT have sendmail even
installed, so it does not fit into this equasion. I do not have
/etc/sendmail.cf either. From what it looks like to me, fetchmail runs as a
daemon from a startup script, and every three minutes downloads my E-mails
into my user file. Any other ideas?

Ralph