[clamav-users] Any way to force scan as mail?

2017-02-28 Thread Carlos Velasco
Hi, Is there any way to force clamscan to treat the file passed as a mail? Some days ago I stepped into a problem where ClamAV was not detecting a virus attached in an email. I narrowed the problem to Clam not detecting the file passed as a mail. I think this is because mail file has too many

Re: [clamav-users] Any way to force scan as mail?

2017-02-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Carlos Velasco wrote: Is there any way to force clamscan to treat the file passed as a mail? Yes, for example you could turn it into a mail message. There are numerous tools which can do that, I would suggest something like 'formail'. Some days ago I stepped

Re: [clamav-users] Any way to force scan as mail?

2017-02-28 Thread Carlos Velasco
>> Some days ago I stepped into a problem where ClamAV was not >> detecting a virus attached in an email. I narrowed the problem to >> Clam not detecting the file passed as a mail. I think this is >> because mail file has too many headers. > > Your conjecture is incorrect. Neither of those

Re: [clamav-users] Any way to force scan as mail?

2017-02-28 Thread Noel Jones
On 2/28/2017 11:35 AM, Carlos Velasco wrote: > > Anyway, the main question remains unanswered... is there any way to force the > scan as mail (overriding the magic for the first recursion)? > Clam uses the daily.ftm file to decide what type of scanning to use. Generally, clam looks for a