Re: [exim] EXIM not detecting virus emails

On Thursday 22 October 2015 13:33:41 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I have found one problem. I have been using mutt under a normal user on the
> EXIM server to send the test emails. This was because when I tried sending
> from my workstation, the firewall got in the way and cleaned the email
> first.
>
> For some reason, even though mutt was on the server, the emails still went
> through the firewall and was still getting cleaned. Once I forced mutt to
> deliver to 127.0.0.1 EXIM / Clamd then saw and blocked the email as it
> should have.
>

Ignore much of this bit. The firewall wasn't interferring with the delivery
of the emails. However, when my email client retrieved the emails using POP,
the firewall was detecting the virus at that point.