Hi, You shouldn't never try to use amavisd that way. Just configure it as content filter option in main.cf or build recipient access maps invoking it with filter action and just do after queue scans.
Bye! > Egoitz, > Hi > Thanks for your mail. I have used amavisd-new but unfortunately it can not > handle e-mail scanning in offline mode. > Anyway, thanks a lot. > > Kind Regards > Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani > > 2009/11/30 <ego...@ramattack.net> > >> Hi Ali, >> >> The scenario you're describing is not a good idea because you don't know >> when you're users are going to check they're mail accounts. If you want >> a >> scalable email checking system and after queue for avoiding slow >> responses >> from you're smtpd daemons try amavisd-new. >> >> Bye!! >> >> > Hello all, >> > I do not know whether here is the right place to ask this question or >> not, >> > but I would like to know if it is a good idea to perform offline >> e-mail >> > virus scanning. By offline, I mean a scenario in which e-mail >> filtering >> > management tools (like amavisd-new) do not hand out received e-mails >> to >> > virus scanners (like clamav), instead, virus scanning is performed on >> > mailboxes as regular files on the file system. Does anyone have any >> > experiences regarding this scenario? Is at all this scenario sane or >> > applicable? >> > >> > Kind Regards >> > Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani >> > >> >> >> >