evolution, amavis and postfix

Hi,

I'am using SuSE 8.2 and Evolution 1.4.4 (Ximian) to manage my
emails. I also use antivir for virus scaning. Then i try to
use amavis with postfix for scaning incoming emails.

I change the master.cf and main.cf from postfix as it was
written in many "howto's".

master.cf
add lines
(1) localhost:10025 inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=

(2) vscan unix - n n - 10 pipe user=vscan argv=/usr/sbin/amavis
${sender} ${recipient}

main.cf
add lines
(1) content_filter = vscan:

(2) inet_interfaces = all

In amavisd.conf i set this:

(1) $antivir = "/usr/bin/antivir";

(2) # Add X-Virus-Scanned line to mail?
$X_HEADER_TAG = "X-Virus-Scanned";
# Leave empty to add no header
$X_HEADER_LINE = "by AMaViS and AntiVir Personal Edition";

In aliases i set virusalert to "root".

Then i restart my computer, so that everything will start with new
parameters.

Then i sent a mail from one of my account to another account. I use
Evolution to sent and recieve the mail. But when I looked into the
header i can't find the 2 lines which amavis must create.

Is amavis correctly running? Where can i test it?
Must i change any other parameter to run it?

Can anybody help me??????????? I'am a little bit frustated !!!!!

Greetings C a r s t e n

P.S.: Sorry, my english is not the best ;-)

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Carsten Graage wrote:

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> Then i restart my computer, so that everything will start with new
> parameters.

You should only have to do a postfix reload, but OK....

> Then i sent a mail from one of my account to another account. I use
> Evolution to sent and recieve the mail. But when I looked into the
> header i can't find the 2 lines which amavis must create.

> Is amavis correctly running? Where can i test it?
> Must i change any other parameter to run it?

Not sure as I haven't used Amavis for a while. But I'd start by checking
the log files.../var/log/maillog ?
You could also try sending something that will trigger an alert if Amavis
is running. Eicar is basically a "test" virus. Or as they call it
"Anti-Virus test file". See http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm


> Can anybody help me??????????? I'am a little bit frustated !!!!!

I think there's a Amavis mailling list. Maybe start there. Or the
postfix mailing list. I've had lot's of luck posing questions there.

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- Matt -

Carsten Graage <tucksie@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,

> I'am using SuSE 8.2 and Evolution 1.4.4 (Ximian) to manage my
> emails. I also use antivir for virus scaning. Then i try to
> use amavis with postfix for scaning incoming emails.

There are winbloze boxes behind? You don't need to scan
for virus if you are only running Linux. You have a real
virus scanner like Sophos installed? Amavis is just a wrapper.
[...]
> Is amavis correctly running? Where can i test it?

Try a google search and download a few virus, send them via
CLI in a loop a few thousand times to another account
on your system, load should now raise dramatically on the box.

There are various HOWTO for configuration:

http://www.amavis.org/howto/

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Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM