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Operating Systems AIX Will it affect my AIX LPAR security, when i set up email alerts on AIX server. Post 302887973 by bakunin on Wednesday 12th of February 2014 04:43:34 AM
Old 02-12-2014
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Originally Posted by System Admin 77
note: we do not have any kind of security scanner / anti-virus software on LPARs.
First off, if you are sending mails that does not mean you have to receive them too. Just limit (effectively forbidding) mail receipt.

Second, there are no known viruses for AIX at all, so what would you need a virus scanner for? Virus scanner are for Windows machines because the OS is so poorly designed that there is an avalanche of malware possible and an equal avalanche of ways to apply same open. This is not so with AIX.

Third: viruses and other malware do not spread by magic. The most common way to infect machines is to have mail programs automatically execute every executable attachment they receive. This is simply not the case with AIX's mail client. So even if you would receive a mail containing malware and even if your setup is not to drop incoming mail without notice and even if it would do damage if run: you, as the receiver of the mail, would still have to consciously run it to execute it all. Until this it is just another string of data and harmless.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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claws-mail-extra-plugins

CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)				      General Commands Manual				       CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)

NAME

       claws-mail-extra-plugins -- Claws Mail extra plugins meta package.

DESCRIPTION

       claws-mail-extra-plugins is a meta package for installing all extra plugins for the Claws Mail mailer.

       See below for the corresponding manpages of each installed plugin.

SEE ALSO

       claws-mail-acpi-notifier  (1),  claws-mail-attach-remover  (1), claws-mail-cache-saver (1), claws-mail-etpan-privacy (1), claws-mail-feeds-
       reader (1), claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin (1), claws-mail-html2-viewer (1), claws-mail-maildir-plugin  (1),  claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin  (1),
       claws-mail-multi-notifier  (1),	claws-mail-newmail-plugin (1), claws-mail-perl-filter (1), claws-mail-smime-plugin (1), claws-mail-vcalen-
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AUTHOR

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