[Dovecot] Virusscanning

[Noel Butler]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 11:25 +0200, Sven wrote:

> 
> Noel Butler schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 22:07 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Frank Elsner <frank at moltke28.B.Shuttle.DE> (Mo 12 Apr 2010 19:18:53 CEST):
> >>     
> >>> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:06:34 +0200 Andreas Schulze wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Hello list,
> >>>>
> >>>> I use currently a non-dovecot pop3 proxy which has the ability
> >>>> to scan all passing mails for viruses. And I like dovecot.
> >>>>         
> >>> I like dovecot too. But I think virus-scanning is for the MTA.
> >>>       
> >> IMAP allows for other ways „into“ the mail storage than via the MTA.
> >>     
> >
> >
> > I agree with Frank, virus scanning, and IMHO spam filtering is the job
> > for the MTA side of things, reject it before it gets near the mail
> > storage.
> >
> >
> >   
> Hi guys,
> I agree with Heiko. In my current setup it is _wanted_ to store/move 
> mails via IMAP for usability reasons.
> So i am looking for at least virus scanning at the delivery point. 
> postfix and dovecot use deliver, so it should be done at this point.
> 
> Greets, Sven
> 


So, you want  postfix to accept the virus, send it to dovecot's deliver
which then calls a virus scanner and finds it infected and deletes it,
that makes absolutely no sense to me, when postfix could have had its
call to amavisd or mailscanner or some milter and delete it before it
gets to dovecot, in other words deleting it closer to acceptance point
which makes the most sense.