email virus scanning & evolution

tuxrules · 05-10-2005, 11:24 AM

Hi LQ Slackers,

I was wondering if anyone has any pointers to configure/use regular pop3 and smtp email virus scanning with Evolution on a desktop. I am searching around on the net but not getting any relevant hits.

I am on Slack 10.1 with 2.4.29 kernel with Dropline GNOME (if that matters)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Tux

killerbob · 05-10-2005, 05:32 PM

Which antivirus are you thinking of using?

ClamAV works pretty well, though I'm not sure how to set it up in Evolution. That'd be more of a question whether Evolution allows filtering attachments with 3rd party plugins, though, because ClamAV claims to support KMail as a plugin just fine.

If all else fails, you can always setup getmail or fetchmail with a procmail filter for clamav. Or whatever other antivirus, for that matter.

tuxrules · 05-10-2005, 05:55 PM

Thanks bob for replying,

Yes I want ClamAV to do the virus scaning however I've googled on this and I can can hardly find anything. I know there is clamassassin which works with procmail. However I am not sure how to set it up. Specifically I am not sure how would procmail and evolution talk?

Tux