clamassassin - virus filter wrapper for clamav

/usr/bin/clamassassin [mail]

This manual page documents briefly the clamassassin command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

clamassassin is a simple virus filter wrapper for ClamAV for use in procmail filters and similiar applications. clamassassin's interface is similiar to that of spamassassin, making it easy to implement for those familiar with that tool.

clamassassin does not take any command line options.

To pass your mail through clamassassin, add the following command to your procmailrc file (/etc/procmailrc or ~/.procmailrc):

:0fw |/usr/bin/clamassassin

The above will forward the mail to clamassassin, which will use /usr/bin/clamscan to scan the mail, and add the headers X-Virus-Status and X-Virus-Report as appropriate. To filter infected mails, you have to set an additional filter-rule:

:0: * ^X-Virus-Status: Yes IN.virus

In this example, all infected mails are sorted to the "IN.virus" mail folder. If you want to destroy such messages altogether, you can also change IN.virus to /dev/null.

For further information, please have a look at /usr/share/doc/clamassassin/.

procmailrc(5)

This manual page was written by Daniel Leidert (dale) <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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