{"id":92,"date":"2012-08-19T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-08-19T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:56:11","slug":"integrate-avg-anti-virus-free-edition-into-exim-with-exiscan-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/integrate-avg-anti-virus-free-edition-into-exim-with-exiscan-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrate &#8220;AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition&#8221; into Exim with ExiScan patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to integrate &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/free.avg.com\/gb-en\/free-antivirus-download\">AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition<\/a>&#8221; into Exim, using the <a title=\"ExiScan\" href=\"http:\/\/duncanthrax.net\/exiscan-acl\/\" target=\"_blank\">ExiScan<\/a> patch, this is actually quite easy.<\/p>\n<p>Just insert the following fragment into your Exim config:<\/p>\n<pre>\u00a0 # Reject virus infected messages.\r\n\u00a0 # Add message to implicit X-ACL-Warn: header\r\n\u00a0 warn\u00a0 message\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = This message contains malware ($malware_name)\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 set acl_m0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = cmdline:\\\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/usr\/bin\/avgscan --arc %s; echo -e \\N\"\\navg_retval $?\"\\N:\\\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 avg_retval 5:\\\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \\NVirus identified *(.*)$\\N\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 malware\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = *\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 log_message\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = This message contains malware (avg:$malware_name)<\/pre>\n<p>Let me know if this works for you &#8212; I hacked this up quite quickly, but it seems to do its job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to integrate &#8220;AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition&#8221; into Exim, using the ExiScan patch, this is actually quite easy. 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