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Support for Amavis?

Postby vorlon2261 » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:36 am

Hi guys,

Rather than trying to support every virus scanner under the sun (well, actually only 3
I think) would it be possible to get support in for Amavis? That way any virus scanner/spam filter, etc. can be used without issue.

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Postby ScalixSupport » Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:24 am

Amavis is an interesting milter because of the fact you can "chain" milters together.

Scalix doesn't directly provide integration with any anti-spam product, we use the milters available for sendmail. So, if $PRODUCT uses sendmail, we wouldn't have a problem with it.

The caveat to that is that we're not in a position to provide technical support. We do expect that someone in your organisation has the technical knowledge for configuration and troubleshooting.

Cheers

Dave

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Postby florian » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:19 pm

also, we don't need to actually officially support every virus scanner under the sun to allow people to use it.

I've done f-secure in about 3 hours, bitdefender in 2 and H+B in another 3; we've also seen sophos and kaspersky working. ;-) The key is that our current av-interface is via a very flexible scripting mechanism (just check out the omvscan.map script yourself) that can be adapted to any linux-based virus scanner that has a command line interface....

one of the core ideas of open systems architectures! ;-)

-- Florian.
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Postby vorlon2261 » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:30 pm

Will check that out. Thanks for that Florian... Open systems are good, but you still need to know where to look... ;-)

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Postby btisdall » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:37 pm

The nice thing about amavis is that it (appears) to provide finer-grained controlled control of the av/spam scanning/reporting and also the possibility to integrate products such as Maia mailguard that let users have indvidual control of whitelists, access quarantined mail etc.

I'm going to have a go with amavisd-milter on the test system when I get time, will let you know how I get on.

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Postby joejoe » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:21 am

Hi florian,

I am evaluation the Small Business Version of Scalix on a Fedora 7 System.
We have Sophos Virus Scan for our Network, is it possible to get working config Files for this scanner? Your wrote Sophos is known th work, it would be very nice, save me a lot of work :-)

Thanks in advance, Jochen

florian wrote:also, we don't need to actually officially support every virus scanner under the sun to allow people to use it.

I've done f-secure in about 3 hours, bitdefender in 2 and H+B in another 3; we've also seen sophos and kaspersky working. ;-) The key is that our current av-interface is via a very flexible scripting mechanism (just check out the omvscan.map script yourself) that can be adapted to any linux-based virus scanner that has a command line interface....

one of the core ideas of open systems architectures! ;-)

-- Florian.
:D


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