Re: Prescreening email heading to Exchange

[Håkon Eriksen <hakon eriksen usit uio no>]

> Currently we have a linux firewall that forwards email to Exchange. In
> recent weeks we have been inundated with UCE and virii. I would like
> to know if it is possible to prescreen the email at the firewall level
> before it is forwarded to Exchange. If anyone has done this, please
> let me know how. Do you use spamassasin and then forward the email? Is
> f-prot used? We have antivirus on the Exchange server, but would like
> to prefilter to minimize the potential. 

As someone pointed out in an earlier thread, a good tool for this is
MailScanner <URL:www.mailscanner.info>. With this tool you can scan all
your mail for virus and/or spam before you deliver it to your users. It
works with a number of anti-virus programs, including f-prot. 

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 - håkon