Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> >>> Any pointers for using the ClamAVPlugin? >> >> Could you flesh that out a bit? >> . . . >> One of the things I do is scan stuff using my own Perl milter, but it >> never occurred to me that I needed a Perl module to do it with, since >> the clamd API is very straightforward and you can just send stuff to >> clamd from Perl by the ordinary IPC means available in Perl. Before >> you spend a lot of time on this, perhaps you can tell us more about >> what you want to achieve. > > Thanks for the reply. > > Sorry I did not think to explain properly. Using Postfix and > Spamassassinm on an OpenSuse version of Linux (15.1 or something) > wanting to add AV scanning to incoming mail. Started attempting > Sophos for Linux (savd ?) but they have or soon will abandon the > product. > > Decided on ClamAV and after some fumbling had it working through use > of > the ClamAVPlugin. At lesat an EICAR test email was flagged properly. > > Now, it does not appear to work any longer and am attempting to > retrace my steps and coming up short. As usual, I made few written > notes and am slow to admit my "total recall" may no longer bet > exactly "total". > > So basically, just want to tie ClavAV (using clamd) into PF/SA to > scan and flag incoming email. In a way that does not require I > learn, or relearn > > Aside, I did notice the "security issue" but, thought it minor, in my > rather isolated environment. Perhaps you feel it is a serious issue? > > joe a
I don't run postfix and connecting clamd to exim is trivial requiring nothing but a functioning clamd daemon. However I did look at options that might be better at connecting to the clamd daemon and were it me I would look at clamsmtpd for integration. Looks pretty straight forward to me: http://thewalter.net/stef/software/clamsmtp/ _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
