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On Tuesday, March 9, 2004 @ 11:25:19 PM [-0700], Louie Miranda wrote:

> can spamassassin be a virus scanner also?

No, but you can use amavisd-new to act as the conduit for SpamAssassin
AND a virus scanner.

http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

--
Matt

No. Spamassassin does nothing to stop delivery of a message. And the virus
would only be marked as spam. Procmail could do it, but you would spend your
life keeping it updated. It's best to have a tool that does one thing very
well. Try clamAV.

--Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louie Miranda [mailto:louie@axishift.ath.cx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:25 AM
> To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: can spamassassin be a virus scanner also?
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> can spamassassin be a virus scanner also?
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> Louie Miranda
> http://www.axishift.com
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On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 06:29, Chris Santerre wrote:
> Procmail could do it, but you would spend your
> life keeping it updated.

...assuming you pick something that's based on signatures.

<plug>
Here's one that isn't:

http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

</plug>

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John Hardin KA7OHZ
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Apropos Retail Management Systems, Inc. fax: (425) 672-0192
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