Antivirus plug-in
Sympa lets you use an external antivirus solution to check incoming mails. In this case you must set the antivirus_path
and antivirus_args
configuration parameters (see "Antivirus plug-in"). Sympa supports at least following products:
- McAfee/uvscan
- Fsecure/fsav
- Sophos
- AVP
- Trend Micro/VirusWall
- Clam Antivirus
For each email received, Sympa extracts its MIME parts in the $SPOOLDIR
/tmp/antivirus
directory and then calls the antivirus software to check them. When a malware is detected, Sympa looks for the name of it in the standard outout of virus checker and sends a warning message to the sender of the email using your_infected_msg.tt2
template. The email is saved as "bad" and the working directory is deleted (except if Sympa is running in debug mode).