[ale] anti-virus and mozilla

[James P. Kinney III]

And I found a link with some good directions on using that pop3
emulator.
http://mozilla.gunnars.net/mozfaq_use.html

Basically point the Mozmail to the pop3 emulator and setup norton to do
the equivalent of fetchmail.

Now to dig up some relatively benign bug to <shudder> send through the
email and test.</shudder>

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 21:57, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> 
> Later versions of NAV have a built in POP3 proxy implementation that scans
> the incoming email before it hits the MUA. Not sure about specific MUA
> compatability but NAV usually will not trip over a name. It looks at the
> sig. It *might* not work with Moz, but it will detect a virus once the
> user tries to access the attachment. The Real Time engine will pick up the
> virus in the temp file, most of the time as soon as it's written (in most
> MUAs this is immediately after receipt).
> 
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