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 > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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!