[Lias] Mail filtering with sendmail

Mon Apr 15 12:00:07 UTC 2002

Hi Daniel,

Procmail the all-in-one wonder dog of email management is brilliant.  You can use procmail to filter content based upon ANYTHING.  It simply is brilliant.  It may take a while to get the hang of though.  However, if you run a mail relay, then procmail wont be of any help to you, as it is a local mail delivery agent.

For Email AV - We use Trend Micro.  Excellent product.  It supports many different mail configurations.  Either as a relay or in a sendmail sandwich (this lets sendmail do the grunt work and Trend just does the AV).  Trend also have a content filtering addon packager - although I can't speak for its usefulness.  Another useful feature of Trend's InterScan is that it acts as a mail relay, instead of a mail server plugin.  This means that it will work with any mail server (qmail, postfix, exim, sendmail, etc...)

There are other "solutions" such as Sophos, Kapersky, etc....

If you do a search of [Fm] you will find many other content and "virus" "solutions".

However, we find that the Trend / procmail combination works brilliantly.  Its fast, stable, robust and it works.

If you need any help, let me know as we've rolled this out in many sites.

HTH

Cheers

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Hooper 
  To: lias at lists.linux.org.au 
  Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:00 PM
  Subject: [Lias] Mail filtering with sendmail

  Hi,

  Has anyone found a good email filter for sendmail that can kill questionable material (pornographic email adverts) and also run virus checks on all incoming emails?

  -Daniel Hooper

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