Re: clamav

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

Raquel wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:25:38 +0200
> steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl> wrote:
>
>   
> > hi list,
> >
> > i installed clamav, did what the documentation prescribed in
> > /etc/exim4  etc. etc. and all seems well: freshclam updates as it
> > should be, so it  seems to me; without any experience with the
> > working of this av-program.
> >
> > so: what am i to expect?  up till now i see absolutely nothing in
> > my  emails. should i see a message p.e  as 'all is well with this
> > email' or  just nothing, as it is now, till a virus in one of my
> > (many) incoming  emails is discovered?
> >
> > i should appreciate if someone with more experience in the
> > workings of  this scanner  could inform me of 'what to expect'. 
> >
> > i am running debian_etch on thid hd and receive and send my emails
> > with  seamonkey; my mta is (standard) exim4; my kernel
> > 2.6.17-2.k7.
> >
> > thanks on advance,
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > steef
> >
> >
> >     
>
> If you look at the headers of the emails you receive you'll see
> something like:
>      X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.5/2086/Mon Oct 23 10:41:23 2006 on
> missy.yellowline.com
>      X-Virus-Status: Clean
>   
yes i can see that.


> When a virus is found in an incoming message what happens depends
> upon how you have it configured. 
that's what i gonna check

>  However, there's no message
> attached to outgoing emails saying that the emails have been checked
> by ClamAV.  Why should there be?
>
>   
of course not.

thanks!

steef