Re: [Exim] local_scan w spamassasin AND antivirus

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, dman wrote:

> --
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:58:31PM -0400, Dave C. wrote:
>
> | Subject says it all.
> |
> | I have a need to do this. If anyone has done it I would love if they
> | would share their hackery.
> |
> | If not then I guess I will try it on my own.
>
> I haven't done it, but does your AV thingy work like a UNIX filter?
> If so it is quite simple to plug your own together. Both SA-exim and
> exiscan allow you to specify whatever file you want as the scanner
> program. With exiscan you specify a pattern that will be matched on
> stdout for "bad" messages. With SA-exim you make the score in the
> X-Spam-Status header higher than the threshold you've configured. To
> glue SA and AV together, just make a script that first pipes the
> message to one (probably the AV) and if it's bad, output the necessary
> "magic" for the local_scan to reject it. If it's not bad, pipe it
> through the other and output the necessary "magic". I don't think
> that an inefficient implementation would take very long to knock
> together.
>

Hrm.. Unfortunately, this is for high-volume mail server.. 'Inefficient'
may work for testing, but it will surely not do for production..