[Dovecot] Virusscanning

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Tue Apr 13 00:13:36 EEST 2010


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.



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