A simple way to add virus filtering on a mail server running courier-mta.
- install clamav , a good free virus scanner.
You may download it following this link: http://www.clamav.net/download/sources
Follow instructions in the downloaded package for a correct install, usually You need only to create clamav user, clamav group, then
mkdir /var/lib/clamav (or whatever is set as clamav home dir in /etc/passwd)
chown clamav:clamav /var/lib/clamav
open clamav package, cd clamav package
./configure
make
make install - install python-dev package (apt-get install python-dev)
- install pyClamd
wget http://xael.org/norman/python/pyclamd/pyclamd.py
cp pyclamd.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ - install courier pythonfilter
Standard installation steps are:
python setup.py install
mkdir /var/lib/pythonfilter
chown daemon:daemon /var/lib/pythonfilter
ln -s /usr/bin/pythonfilter /usr/lib/courier/filters
filterctl start pythonfilter