Re: [cobalt-users] what is the best..Spamassasin? Mailscanner?

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 11:04  AM, jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Please don't laugh at me on this one, or at least do it very loudly - If 
> users use programs like Webmail; are there email exploits that can damage 
> the RAQ server? Or are the AV mail-scan programs just stopping to virus 
> from getting to a client computer running Eudora/Outlook type programs?
...
> As I get spamassassin and possibly others running I want to be sure I 
> understand exactly what I'm protecting against and why.

Since I'm also responsible for the care and feeding of the Mac/Win clients 
in-house which get mail through our Qube, I've found that scanning for 
malicious code at the server level saves me a lot of maintenance headaches 
at the client level. Naturally, YMMV.

pjm