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List:       james-user
Subject:    Re: Virus checking
From:       "Serge Knystautas" <sergek () lokitech ! com>
Date:       2002-02-27 4:20:28
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Maybe there isn't a java-API to a virus scanner, but you could wrap a virus
scanner with either Runtime.exec or possibly JNI.  I've seen a few posting
on freshmeat that do something like this for other mail serves and I'm
guessing that's how they'd do it.

Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites
http://www.lokitech.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcel Maré" <list@webtothemax.com>
To: "Mailinglist James-User" <james-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Virus checking


> I would like to use James as my company mail server, but I haven't figured
> out how best to scan for viruses.
> Currently we're using McAfee Groupshield which scans all incoming mail in
> the Exchange mailserver. Obviously Groupshield has to go (no tears there),
> but how can I scan the mail messages, or more accurately the attachments,
> handled by James?
>
> One (naive) option I can think of would be if the attachments are stored
as
> files on the mail server, so that they can be scanned by the regular
> (mcAfee) virusscanner. But how can I make sure the attachment is scanned
> before being downloaded?
> A second option would be a virusscanner with a java-API, very unlikely.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
>
> Marcel Maré


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