Re: [Evolution] Of Filters, viruses, worms and trojans

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

You should be able to do it as pipe to program, assuming it sets a return code.  If not you may have to write a wrapper script which does.

Its kind of a waste of time on a unix client anyway, virus checking is normally done at the mta level instead of the client level on unix.

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 19:33 -0500, L. Clayton Parker wrote:
> I need a little help working out a method of filtering incoming messages
> through a virus detector. I recently installed and ran Sophos' antivirus
> product for Linux. Upon being instructed to do so, it scanned my entire
> drive for over 90,000 viruses, worms, and trojans. This was quite a
> lengthy process, but thankfully it does not need to be done often and a
> cron job can handle that.
>
> My problem is that I would like to set it up to filter incoming mail
> messages in Evolution. I thought I could use a filter somewhat like the
> method for calling SpamAssassin, but haven't been able to figure out a
> way to make it work. Anybody out there have any ideas?

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer