[Dovecot] Virusscanning

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Andreas Schulze <sca at andreasschulze.de>:
> 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 have to combine both.
> 
> One (and the only) idea is to call a virusscanner a shellscript,
> installed as PostLoginScript.
> 
> But I see multiple disadvantages:
> 1. it's a shellscript which tents to be slow.

Why slow? All it needs to do is call the daemonized scanner. That's
not too slow...

> 2. it's called *on* the mailbox-host, not on a dedicated proxy

Yep.

> 3. I think it's slow and I dont't know howto measure.
> 4. I thint it's slow.
> 5. I think it's slow.
> 6. I like a "Plan B"

Try it. The hardest part is to only scan mails younger than "last scan".

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