Antivirus Scanning Profile for IMAP Traffic

Note: This feature applies only to Juniper Networks security devices that support internal antivirus (AV) scanning.

Edit the following options to configure an antivirus (AV) profile for scanning IMAP traffic:

Enable: Click the check box to enable scanning of IMAP traffic. By default, scanning is enabled.

Scan Mode: Select the appropriate scan mode:

Decompress Layer: Enter a value between 1 and 8. The upper limit value is platform dependent. The value specifies how many layers of nested compressed files the internal AV scanner can decompress before it executes the virus scan. The default setting for IMAP is 3. See Example.

If a message contains a compressed .zip file that contains another compressed .zip file, there are two compression layers, and decompressing both files requires a decompress-layer setting of 2. Valid settings are between 1 and 4, so the AV scanner can decompress up to 4 layers of compressed files.

Include Extension List: Select an extension list to include for AV scanning. This option instructs the security device to only scan files with extensions specified in the file extension list. Make sure the above scan-mode option is set to scan-ext. To create a file extension list, see File Extension Configuration.

Exclude Extension List: Select an extension list to exclude from AV scanning. This option instructs the security device to not scan files with extensions specified in the list.  Make sure the above scan-mode option is set to scan-ext. To create a file extension list, see File Extension Configuration.

Timeout: Enter a value between 1 and 1800 seconds to specify the timeout value for AV scanning. The default is 180 seconds.

Virus Detection Notify with Protocol Code: Click this check box to enable the AV scanner to drop the infected packet and send a warning message to the IMAP client.

Email Notify: Notifies the sender or recipient about detected viruses or scanning errors.

virus sender: Notifies the sender if a virus is found in an email message.
scan error sender:
Notifies the sender if an email message is dropped as a result of a scan error.
scan error recipient:
Notifies the recipient if an email message is passed as a result of a scan error.