On Thursday 30 January 2014 14:43:32 Charles Swiger did opine:

> Hi--
> 
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is stuff like this in the clamav man pages? I haven't found it if it
> > is, hence the question.
> 
> No.  ClamAV documents what it does; one normally consults the
> documentation for amavisd, or postfix, or whatever one is using as to
> how to call an external content scanner like clamdscan.
> 
> I'm not a procmail expert, but I seem to recall that there were two main
> modes of operation, depending on whether it is integrated into the MTA
> config (originally as root) to process mail for all users, or whether
> it's being invoked on a per-user basis by .forward files or the like.
> 
> Regards,

No .forward file. it is fetchmail's MTA, and fetchmail is running as me, 
the user.  So I assume procmail, when called, is running as me.

So now I am waiting for clamav to hit on the next virus.

Thanks Charles.

Cheers, Gene
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