Dear all,

I'm using Fedora Core 1 as my mail server. Is calmav + mailscanner a good combination for mail scanner?

When I do:

# yum search calmav

it returns calmav 0.71-0.fdr.2.1, which is a pretty old version. Should I install the 0.83 rpm package? Does it support Fedora Core 1?

Thank you so much for the help.

i use sendmail with Cyrus-imapd installed as the local delivery agent. This combined with Clamav+Spamassassin running in the Sendmail Queue , to do this you will need spamass-milter and clamav-milter. This will scan the mail before it is delivered to the inbox. You don't necessarily need to use Cyrus-imapd, as it is Sendmails feature that you are implementing the scanning mail in the Queue. Combined with a Blacklists such as spamhaus and spamcop, you will see many rejects in your maillog heres an example of the configuration needed in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

dnl # ANTI-VIRUS CLAMD , CLAMAV-MILTER CONNECT LOCAL SOCKET
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav', `S=local:/var/clamav/clmilter.sock, T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl
define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `spamassassin,clamav')dnl

dnl # Abuse-lists
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `"550 Mail from " $`'&{client_addr} " refused - see http://dsbl.org/"')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"550 Mail from " $`'&{client_addr} " refused - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml"')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org', `"550 Mail from " $`'&{client_addr} " refused - see http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL"')dnl



Make sure of course when you install spamass-milter and clamav-milter that they have correct local socket, that your sendmail.mc points to the proper socket or else they will be bi-passed and no scanning will be done. I have set Spamassassin to run as a non-priviledged user, although i see documentation mentioning otherwise. It is important that the user, who run spamassin, have access to ~/.spamassassin as it will attempt to find the user you are sending mail to.

Thanks dude,

So do you mean that with the above sendmail "proper" configuration, and spamass-milter and clamav-milter being installed, I don't need to install calmav in extra? I simply need to install mailscanner for virus and the combination will work?

Do I need to install clamav-data.i386 as well? or clamav will update itself?

You will need these and probably a few other dependencies.

clamav-milter-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf
clamd-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf
clamav-db-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf
clamav-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf

spamassassin-3.0.3-3.fc3
spamass-milter-0.3.0-1.1.fc3.rf


You can get most of these pre-built rpms from ATRPMS or DAG. Clamav-milter is just used for interaction with Sendmail, you will still need clamav and any needed dependencies to properly use it to scan your Queue.