Re: [Exim] Antivirus for Exim/SMTP?

Some of these software vendors have very idiotic views on
licensing. Personally, I try to avoice software that isnt GPL..

What if you scan a piece of mail for viruses, and then forward it to
someone else?! Gasp! You need another license for that other person.

What if you are scanning outgoing mail!? Gasp! You need a license for
every email address you send to!

Unless they have some way of checking, and/or you have some serious
worry about legal repercussion, I would tell them where to go with
their license.. Run the virus under the 'exim' user, and tell them its
only running as one user.

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:35:52 +0100, Max Caines <M.B.Caines@???>
> wrote:
> >Do you have any sort of official statement from NAI that a 1-user license
> >is sufficient for scanning email for all your users? I ask because I've
> >just got this running (and it works very well) but I asked this question of
> >various AV suppliers in the UK earlier this year (including NAI) and they
> >all said I'd need a license for every mailbox on the server.
>
> NAI sales stuff is pretty clueless. German sales told me yesterday
> that I'd need a license for every client workstation in the network.
> They probably didn't even understand what I wanted.
>
> OTOH, Datafellows sales stuff says pretty clear that if their software
> is installed on a single machine, you'd need a single license,
> regardless how many workstations receive mail scanned by that single
> machine.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
>

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