Looking for anti-virus software

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:54:28AM -0500, Alan Cohen wrote:
> My Maildir email setup is such that all incoming messages get plopped by
> Exim into a user's folder called "UNSCANNED," each in its own file. It's
> then the responsibility of my code to decide where to move them.
> 
> As part of my code, I'd like to have a program which can read the
> message file (each email is in its own file) and return a status code to
> me that indicates that the message does or doesn't contain a virus. 
> Something like:   $status = `/usr/sbin/viruscheck $file`
> 
> Any suggestions on where to find such a program and updates to it?

I have used mailscanner with exim before to do basicalyl that.  Worked
great.  Used clamav as the virus scanner, spamassasin for some spam
checks, and mailscanner dealt with gluing it all together.

Lennart Sorensen
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