Re: Newbie issues with Sylpheed-Claws Win 32.

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:01:41 +0700
Syafril Hermansyah <[email protected]> wrote:

> NAV200x using socket layer scanning (something like sniffing port
> 25/110) when you activate real time scanning, he said it is heuristic
> scanning :-)
> IMHO I never trust mail AV that scan mail without decode first, too
> many false alarm :-)

Sorry, I don't understand this. NAV 2003 has an auto-protect feature,
which I assume is why Thorsten doesn't believe that NAV is needed to
scan my e-mails as they come in from the pop server. Furthermore, he
stated that SC could crash or hang if e-mail scanning is implemented
for SC, however NAV 2003 has a timeout feature that should protect
against that sort of thing. If SC still crashes, then I would consider
that a bug rather than a feature in a Win 32 app. Obviously, mail is
handled differently in Linux and the need for virus scanners isn't the
same either. This leads me to believe (without actually knowing
something about the issue <g>) that this could be an implementation
issue.

> NAV with realtime scanning always broke high speed mua (makes
> processing time out), I noticed this happened also for The Bat! user.
> RTS does scan the files while still in RAM.

This should be solved with the NAV timeout feature in 2003 shouldn't it?

The main issue for me is still that I don't feel safe without e-mail
scanning and that NAV doesn't seem to recognize SC to do this. Whether
this is a real or only perceived danger doesn't necessarily make that
much of a difference. Aren't there any users on the list that feel this
is a problem? Are there any users of NAV 2003 that have gotten e-mail
scanning to work with SC 0.8.11 without problems? How did you do it?

Cheers,

Brian



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