Carlos Williams wrote: > I just stood up my Debian email server running Postfix 2.5. It is a > very vanilla server but functioning regardless. My goal is to get > Clamav installed and scanning messages (both incoming and outgoing) > however I have never done so before & I was told that I need to use > "Amavisd-new" to achieve this? Am I correct in understanding that I am > to use Amavis as a middle man to Clamav and eventually Spamassassin? I > am just trying to understand the relationship and if I do need Amavis > to properly run Clamav on my email server. I will also eventually > tackle Spamassassin but Anti Virus software is more critical right now > than spam. Can anyone please point me in the right direction and clear > the air for me? > > Thanks! >
Yes, amavisd-new is a good interface between postfix and clamav. You can alternately use the clamav-milter program instead of amavisd-new, but I like the extra flexibility of amavisd-new. The place to get started is the official amavisd-new documentation, which is excellent. http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.postfix.html -- Noel Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
