Re: [Exim] Piping Mail into Virus Checkers

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Author: Mike Richardson
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To: The Jelly Bean Junky .
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Piping Mail into Virus Checkers
> Hope all you Guys and Gals are well. Right my question is that I have exim
> running nicely (version exim-4.12-1) but I want to add on to it a virus
> scanner and perhaps at a later date some spam control...
> I have seen alot of perl type packages that uses perl to take the output
> from exim and then run the virus scanner over the emails. I want to keep as
> far away from perl as possible !! I have ClamAV running at the moment and I
> would like to use that to scan the incoming and outgoing emails. Is there
> not a direct way I can pipe the mails directly into the AV scanner.. or if
> there is an AV out there that runs on OpenBSD which will do that and cut out
> the middle perl thingies ??


Have a look at exiscan (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan) which is
a patch and compiles in with exim (thus pretty fast) and can be
configured to pass mails to virus scanners and spamassassin. Also
allows for regex and file extension filtering.

Mike

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