On 21/06/2008, at 12:20 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: > James, > >>> If Mac OS X is missing a setrgid(), I believe it can be avoided >>> if amavisd is started as the final user (vscan/amavis) instead >>> of starting it as root: su vscan -c 'amavisd' > >> I tried: >> sudo su amavisd -c '/usr/local/sbin/amavisd debug' >> and it started! > > I'm glad. > >> (told me it couldn't find SpamAssassin, so I had to install that. >> (I'm >> not going to use SpamAssassin, so don't know why I have to install >> it, >> but anyway.... tried installing SA via cpan, but it had too many >> errors and would not install. I then downloaded the source and was >> able to install it) > > If you don't need spam checking, it can be disabled entirely: > > @bypass_spam_checks_maps = (1); > > This way SpamAssassin won't even be compiled/loaded into memory.
Hadn't noticed that option right at the top! Will turn it off - thanks. > > >> Next step is to integrate it with Postfix (using the supplied >> readme.postfix), which seems straightforward, and then to get it >> scanning with Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac (which uses the 'sweep' >> command). > > If your traffic is anything more than minimal, the 'sweep' > command-line scanner will likely be quite slow. See if you can > install Sophie on your platform - it is a daemon wrapper > around the same Sophos library as used by sweep. Yes, looks like the difference between clamav and clamavd. I'll need to investigate if it will run on Mac OS X first. Thanks for letting me know. > > > Btw, see also my 'sophos-ide-update' for reliably updating the > Sophos viruses database: > http://www.ijs.si/software/sophos-ide-update/ Great! Thanks again, James. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
