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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
Goodbye, MailwatchI've been using Mailwatch for a couple of years to scan all incoming mail for viruses before it gets to our Eudora Internet Mail Server. It's been working very well, except for occasional slow delivery.
Unfortunately, they've just implemented a $100/month minimum fee, which is twice what we've been paying. It may not seem like much, but every little bit counts.
I looked into various "appliances" for scanning mail in transit, but there's little Macintosh support and they're kind of pricey.
I'm already running EIMS' supplied attachment filters, which easily blocks most viruses, but I need to be reasonably sure that nothing will get through. Posters to the EIMS List recommend supplementing the attachment filters with Simple Text Filter, which stores its rules in plain text files that can be edited while the server is running. So, I purchased it ($75) and added OITC's STF Database as a starting point.
I changed the DNS routing for one of our domains to remove Mailwatch from the loop - we'll see how it goes.
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