AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner

Hi,
I have just tried to configure exim 4.01 and amavisd-new-20020517 following
the instructions contained in README.exim and it fails with the following
error in the mail log

Jul 10 04:11:17 perth-ms-164-104 exim[918]: 2002-07-10 04:11:17
17S1KP-0000En-00 == slaterm@... R=amavis T=amavis defer (-53): retry
time not reached for any host

Any ideas ?

Michael

>From: "Boniforti Flavio" <boniforti.f@...>
>
>How may I tell my AMaVis ./configure script that it has to use my
>/usr/local/openantivirus/ScannerDaemon.jar???
>
>Where does that script seek for ScannerDaemon.jar?? It tells me that t
>doesn't find it, but it IS installed!!!

What version of amavis are you trying to configure?  The standard answer of 
"the latest" isn't valid because there is more than one branch now :-)


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Hi all, i hope some of you can answer this question.

Currently im running a few test setups of Amavis using sendmail/milter/sophie.
Im using both amavisd-new and amavisd. Seems like im going to go towards
amavisd-new though since I like some of the new options. (really wish you
guys would just integrate it all..this is sortof annoying :)

Im testing this for a somewhat large setup. Say a few hundred thousand emails
a day at minimum, upto a few million a day.

Usually a perl daemon sets off a few alarm bells with me concerning
scalability and speed. But the pre-forking stuff might help there. 

At the same time im looking at CarrierScan using a milter daemon in c++
supplied by Symantec that does what amavisd/milter also does. 
But Im pretty reluctant to move to this sortof closed-source environment.

Is anyone currently running a large, multiserver, loadbalanced setup using
amavisd(-new)? Doing a few million emails a day? If so, are you happy with
it? Any problems you've encountered?

Any information is appreciated,

Regards,

Cor

Finally after many hours trying to install amavis-milter with sendmail 8.11.6 in a RH7.3 system, everything looks fine. All the compile and installation ran without errors.

I started amavisd and sendmail and tried to test it sending a mail message with EICAR.COM attached.
The messsage is sent but nothing more happens... It seems the scan doesn't detect the file.
I'm using uvscan from McAfee, and when I test uvscan against the file it detects it, but nothing happens while sending mail...

Maybe EICAR.COM is considered not to be a virus... Is that normal? How can I test the system to know if it functions?

M.Carreira

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Hello!

How may I tell my AMaVis ./configure script that it has to use my
/usr/local/openantivirus/ScannerDaemon.jar???

Where does that script seek for ScannerDaemon.jar?? It tells me that t
doesn't find it, but it IS installed!!!

Thank you.


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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:42:20AM +0200, Rune Hamnvik wrote:

> We are running amavis (0.3.12pre7) with sendmail (8.11.6) on Redhat
> 7.2, and it works fine. But we think the way emails with attachements
> exceeding the MAXFILES limit is handled, is bad. Now, such emails is
> stuck in the sendmail mail queue, and the sender of the email is not
> informed that the mail has not reached the receiver. Would'nt it be
> better to remove the mail from the queue and return an error message
> to the sender, in the same way as if a virus was detected ?

So change the code and return another error code but EX_TEMPFAIL

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Hello!

I'm about to create the non-privileged user for running AMaVis with
Postfix. now the questions:
What kind of user should I create? May I create "vscan" and put it in
its own "vscan" group?
Does it need to have shell access?? Some homedir???

Thank you in advance.


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>From: "Manuel Carreira" <mcarreira@...>
>
>I have RedHat 7.3 and Sendmail 8.11.6. I reinstalled Sendmail 8.11.6 from 
>the source code to make it milter-enabled.
>When I try to install Amavis (amavisd-snapshot-20020300) with the commands:

Try the latest snapshot (20020531) and the patched amavisd.in (either via 
the patches in the list or via the patched copy I posted to the list).

>LIBS=”-lmilter -lsmutil -lpthread”
>./configure --enable-milter 
>--with-sendmail-source=/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/sendmail-8.11.6
>--with-warnsender=/usr/local/etc/amavis/sender
>
>
>several errors appear saying something like that:
>
>checking for mkdtemp....yes
>checking for strlcpy........no
>checking for libmilter-config.....no
>checking for pthreads library -lpthreads...no
>checking for smfi_main in -lmilter...no

Have you read README.milter?  You need to build the milter libraries first.

>(these are only examples and not the entire output)
>
>I think it doesn't find the correct place where the library is. Maybe they 
>are in an incorrect place.
>The sendmail directory has a subdirectory called obj.Linux.2.4.18-3.i686 
>where he puts several library files. Maybe when configuring, it doesn't 
>find them. I don't know...
>Someone have a clue??
>
>That library "pthreads" where is it? I don't think it is in the RH 7.3 
>distribution... Where can I get it?

Don't worry about it.  If amavis builds (and runs) then you've got 
everything you need.


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Jean-Pierre Schwickerath <lists@...> writes:

> Hilko Bengen <bengen@...> wrote:
> 
> > Since I wrote most of the code in -ng, there is a slight chance that I
> > could figure the cause of the error out.
>  
> Well I reinstalled amavis-ng-0.1.3.1 and can now reconfirm what I had
> seen back then.
> I sent a simple e-mail with as attached file the eicar.com Virus
> definition.
> I use postfix 1.1.11 and H+BEDV Antivirus 2.0.3. Communication with
> amavis occurs over SMTP. Amavis listens on port 10025 and reinjects
> mail to localhost:25 after scanning. So far no problem but, here are
> the logs:

Try removing the "-q" switch from the hbEDV.pm file:

  my $output_handle = cmd_pipe($args, $cfg_antivir_binary,
			       '-allfiles', '-noboot', '-s', '-z',
			       "$$args{directory}/parts");

-Hilko

So embarrassed. Thanks, tons. Another lesson learned.


>  i.e. not amavis. Check master.cf (cf. README_FILE/DEBUG_README section 3
>  in the postfix source distribution).

Noel

noel@...

So embarrassed. Thanks, tons. Another lesson learned.



 i.e. not amavis. Check master.cf (cf. README_FILE/DEBUG_README section 3
 in the postfix source distribution).

Noel