I have Arch Linux, and I am using Mozilla Thunderbird ( version 6.0.2). I need clamav ( version 0.97.2-1) to scan incoming and outgoing email.

What I've done to solve this:
1) The Clamav website has documentation, but it lacks detail, making it useless.
2) Most forums such as this one date back to 2008 and before. They mention software and extensions that are outdated or do not exist in the AUR.
3) Ubuntu forums 2008 speaks of extensions which are not available Thunderbird.
3) Arch Linux only provides set up information for Clamav & Thunderbird.
4) Google was of no help due to the fact that all information appears to be outdated.
Help would be greatly appreciated and is obviously needed.
Thanks

The p3scan package (which is in the Arch repository) can be used to set up an email proxy, so that email can be scanned by any one of a number of virus scanners (including clamav by default). This can be set up to operate transparently by using iptables, so that there is no need to change any of the email clients. There is a readme file with a description of the configuration.

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Thanks for the fast reply and the program suggestion.
Unfortunately, I now have three questions, of which one is in two parts:

Question 1)
Within the "/etc/p3scan/p3scan.conf" file there is a line that reads "# username: laitcg#pop.gmail.com:110 host: <url of p3scan machine> port: 8110".

My question is:how does a person find the url of the p3scan machine?

Question 2)
Within the read me file that you sent me (http://p3scan.sourceforge.net/readme.html)
there appears the following:
P3SCAN_USER=mail (clamav, etc...)
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport pop3 -j REDIRECT --to 8110
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport smtp -j REDIRECT --to 8110
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport pop3s -j REDIRECT --to 8110
iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport pop3 -m owner --uid-owner $P3SCAN_USER -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport pop3 -j REDIRECT --to 8110

My question as it pertains to the above is: Who is the owner and who is the P3SCAN_user?

Question 3)
Within the "/etc/p3scan/p3scan.conf" file there is a paragraph that reads:
"Clam Anti-Virus: http://www.clamav.net
#
# This program must run as the same user as p3scan is running so that
# it can access the mail files for scanning. Either compile with the
# options --with-user=mail --with-group=mail (if p3scan is using the
# the default user/group of "mail") or change "User" in clamav.conf
# to the user p3scan is running as. If you get a return code other
# than a 0 or 1, see the clamav documentation for the reason.
#"

My question as it pertains to the above is: I installed Clamav years ago, so how do I make it run as user mail?


Again, thanks for pointing me in the correct direction. If you or someone could please, please answer the three questions that I've asked above, I would be most grateful.