Antivirus For Fedora & Postfix

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 20:27, Phil Meyer wrote:
>
> We spent allot of time researching this for the first client, and when
> we went to do the second, it seemed too easy.
>
> As others have mentioned, both clamv and amavis are in extras.
>
> Here are the relevant lines from my postfix main.cf:
>
> content_filter = lmtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
> lmtp-amavis   unix    -       -       n       -       8       lmtp
> smtp-amavis     unix -        -       n     -       8  smtp
>
> It should be pretty obvious which lines go in which section.
>
> The idea is that both inbound and outbound email are passed through the
> virus checker.
>
> amavis will use the clamv database for checking.
>
> As I recall, the default /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf does this.
>
> clamv may need a bit of tweaking for email reports, but thats about it.
>
> Once you verify the postfix is working, you can remove the sendmail
> packages.
>
> The guys who rolled the packages of clamv, amavis and postfix for FC6
> did a good job.
>
> Good luck!

Thanks - that should make it easier.  I really ought to get this added in.