On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 13:37 -0400, Xn Nooby wrote:
I sent this email to the Rehdat list, but I thought the Centos users might be more inclined to have the command-line solution I am looking for, so I thought I would post it here too:
I would like to add anti-virus to my email server. Currently I have Postfix, Dovecot, PHP, and Squirrelmail installed. The users only use Squirrelmail to access mail. I am looking for command-line instructions, since I have limited access to the server itself (I am using SSH). ClamAV seems to be most common linux AV package, so I assume I should be using that.
I'm not sure if I should be using Amavisd or MailScanner, or neither. I believe I need one of them to act as the glue that connects Postfix to ClamAV. Apparently none of these packages (Amavisd/MailScanner/ClamAV) are part of RHEL5, so I have to get the RPMS from somewhere else.
Is there some standard way of adding AV to Postfix?
clearly the best way is to add a wrapper program like amavisd-new or MailScanner which handles spamassassin and which ever combination of anti-virus programs you use.
The postfix list and primary author, Wietse will tell you flat out not to use MailScanner (there's something personal between Wietse and Julian, the author of MailScanner) but I found amavisd-new to be a PITA and just love MailScanner myself and have never had issues with integrating MailScanner into Postfix mail queue.
rpmforge has clamav/clamdb packages. MailScanner is available from http://www.mailscanner.info
Craig
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Hi Craig,
In one of my failed attempts before I posted, I had gotten those RPMs from rpmforge, perhaps I was on the right track. I was following these instructions:
http://www.linuxmail.info/how-to-install-clam-antivirus-centos-5
I will install install ClamAV from those RPM's, make a backup using CloneZilla, then I will only have to get either MailScanner or Amavis to work.
thanks!