TechnoToys: Clam AntiVirus software

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Agreed...

I have tried it both ways. For the individual user, the trade off is
faster email download completion  v.s. running yet another daemon
process and possibly a watchdog process to make sure that the clamav
daemon continues running. Your choice...

For those who would like to filter their evolution mail using a running
clamav daemon, here is a script will work

        % cat /usr/local/bin/clamd-filter
        
        #!/bin/sh
        /usr/bin/clamdscan --quiet --stdout  -


-Joseph

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On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:51 +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 15:24, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> > For example, the Evolution mailer can apply filters to incoming and
> > outgoing mail. One available type of filter pipes mail through a shell
> > script and then takes an action [e.g. move infected email to a
> > particular folder] based upon the return value of the shell script. Here
> > is a simple shell script that can be used to implement an anti-virus
> > filter:
> > 
> >         % cat /usr/local/bin/clam-filter
> >         
> >         #!/bin/sh
> >         /usr/bin/clamscan --quiet --stdout --recursive -
> 
> In this scenario you should use clamdscan, not clamscan, it would be much quicker.
> 
> > -Joseph
> 
> -Nigel
> 
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