On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0400, Xn Nooby wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at 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 > > > 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! ---- looks ok - MailScanner and Amavisd have their own documentation and I would recommend that you install yum-priorities package when using 3rd party repos like rpmforge with CentOS MailScanner handles the clamav virus definition updates for you...don't know about amavisd-new Craig