[NTLUG:Discuss] Anti-Virus/Anti-Spamming for Sendmail on Linux

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Bob Byron wrote:

> I am using RedHat 8.0.
>  
> I want to add anti-virus and anti-spamming software to our email server.
> I am currently using sendmail.  To clarify, this is going on the 
> server and
> not on individual machines. 

I'll be interested in this solution as well.  I've been researching 
adding an anti-virus program to my sendmail program, but I'm not happy 
with what I've found.

The only really free solutions involved clam antivirus, or amavis 
antivirus....however you need to get a forwarding script to link the 
antivirus program to sendmail/procmail's handling.  I've been trying a 
couple of scripts, but they don't play well together at all.  The other 
antivirus solutions I've found involved some $$$/yr., and, usually, two 
copies of sendmail running while adding some sort of cryptic rule to 
sendmail.cf (whatever happened to changing sendmail.mc instead?).

I like clam antivirus....It even updates it definitions base at times 
you specify (I do mine twice a day).  I keep hearing conflicting 
opinions though for if clam antivirus is ready or not yet to be used in 
any type of a 'work' environment.