Need help getting clamav working

Bob Brennan rbrennan96 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 14:09:30 UTC 2005


On 4/15/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Bob Brennan wrote:
> > <snipped resolved info>
> >
> >>>* added INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav',`S=local:/var/run/clamav-milter/clamav.sock,F=,T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl
> >>>to sendmail.mc
> >>
> >>Let me ask: where exactly did you add this milter line?
> >
> >
> > at the very bottom
> 
> That's likely to be the problem. It should certainly be above any MAILER
> lines and probably above any DAEMON_OPTIONS lines too.
> 
> Try moving the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER nearer to the top of the file and see
> if that helps.

I have placed it above
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
and
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
rebuilt sendmail.cf and restarted sendmail, no errors in maillog

Sent myself a clean email from gmail and got
X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.71, clamav-milter version 0.71
X-Virus-Status: Clean
in the header (same as before)

Sent myself clean and dirty emails from within the server, no clamav
headers. I think that is a matter of expectation-alignment, probably
mail that does not come in from the outside world is not being
clamaved. So I guess I will have to wait for a real virus, I doubt
gmail would appreciate me being a virus mailer even if it is only to
myself.

So I guess 2 questions remain:
1. How do I know if viruses are indeed been blocked? (can't find an
appropriate log file)
2. How do I know my definitions are being kept up-to-date with no
apparent freshclam?




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