On Saturday 31 October 2009, Adam Katz wrote:
>Yet Another Ninja wrote:
>> On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> This looks like what I had in mind.  But since I don't have that part
>>> checked out yet, would it then delete the mail because clamdscan had
>>> an error?  I'll enable the second after the first is working. :)
>>
>> my recipe was stolen from this
>>
>> see
>> http://wiki.clamav.net/bin/view/Main/ClamAndProcmail
>
>I like this one better ... it shows the scan results.
>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FilteringViruses
>
>(Odd that the SA wiki's version is more complete than Clam's...)
>
>There's also an SA plugin that can call ClamAV, see
>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin
>
>However, I highly recommend something that interacts at SMTP-time so
>that a 500-series reject notice can be issued, letting the sender know
>that the message wasn't delivered due to its virus/malware content (I
>also feel this way about spam filtering).

Is this possible by the users of fetchmail or mpop?

I wasn't aware that a pop client has the rights to issue a 500 reject to a 
pop3 server..  In addition to trying to get clamav running from a procmail 
recipe, I am looking into replacing fetchmail with mpop.

>Also note (and this is a current predicament on my own deployment) that
>clamdscan (as well as clamav-milter, which is what I use) is incapable
>of breaking some attachments out of emails; an EICAR test attached with
>Thunderbird still gets delivered in all three of the above
>implementations on my system.
>


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