Mailscanner not using Clamd
Shawn Iverson
shawniverson at summitgrid.com
Tue Aug 25 13:51:55 UTC 2020
Also, do you see MailScanner getting invoked otherwise?
On 8/25/20 9:50 AM, Shawn Iverson wrote:
>
> No, postfix isn't the culprit here if MailScanner is actually
> processing the emails. Do you see clamd being invoked by MailScanner
> in your mail log at all?
>
> On 8/25/20 9:42 AM, Nigel Kilner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using MailScanner 5.3.3, Postfix 2.8.11 & Clamd 0.102.4 on Suse
>> Linux 12.2 (yes its is old). Until recently I had F-prot working with
>> Mailscanner to scan emails but Cyren have stopped supporting F-prot
>> (or will have by July 2021). Si I thought I would use Clamav (clamd)
>> to do virus scanning. Unfortunately although Mailscanner finds clamd
>> and detects the Eicar.com test file emails don't seem to be going
>> through clamd. e.g. I sent an Eicar test file to my gmail account
>> expecting it to be found by mailscanner/clamd but it doesn't get
>> found. In fact there are no log entries in mail for clamd during
>> sending/receiving emails.
>>
>> I have checked my configuration for mailscanner, clamd and postfix
>> but can't see anything obvious. However I found the mailscanner
>> postfix instructions https://www.mailscanner.info/postfix/ which
>> states postfix needs to be CHROOTED to work with Mailscanner. Is
>> this necessary? my postfix is a suse system package v 2.8.11-2.6.1
>> which I can Chroot it if necessary via Sysconfig.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
> --
>
> Shawn Iverson
> shawniverson at summitgrid.com
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Shawn Iverson
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