Yet another ClamAV filter for Courier-MTA
There are some other egregious ClamAV filters for Courier-MTA out there:
* Gordon Messmer's courier-pythonfilter/clamav.py
* Julian Mehnle's Courier::Filter::Module::ClamAVd
* Tony Di Monaco's ClamCour
Those three projects started in 2003-2004, more or less in the order listed. At
that time, avfilter v.1 used Sophos as a backend scanner. I thought an Open Source
anti-virus package could not be workable, because of the total committment required
to update virus signatures. My bad. In fact, distributing Sophos' include files had
always been problematic, and then the whole interface was apparently discontinued in
April 2014; avfilter v.2 is there if anyone feels like porting it. Meanwhile ClamAV,
under the aegis of Cisco, is getting better and better. Eric Raymond's prophecies
seem to be coming true...
Besides swapping the backend engine, rewriting included a farewell to MIME parsing,
a vestige of the time when scanners didn't know about email. Nowadays, scanners deal
more and more with phishing, an arena disputed between anti-virus and anti-spam.
Anti-phishing implies false positives. Therefore, the configuration has been enhanced
so as to allow certain infected messages to pass, with an added header field spelling
the name(s) of the malware detected therein. See the docs for details.
- RPM
- courier-avfilter-3.11-1.lbn42.x86_64.rpm
- Summary
- Yet another ClamAV filter for Courier-MTA
- URL
- http://www.tana.it/sw/avfilter/
- Group
- System Environment/Daemons
- License
- GPL
- Source
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courier-avfilter-3.11-1.lbn42.src.rpm
- Checksum
- 6a881c8af6a9250bee3c797df20e15d2ec34874713b60522be4a925a5c0f0823
- Build Date
- 2025/11/03 18:12:10
- Requires
-
clamav-lib >= 0.100.0
courier >= 0.63.0
- Provides
-
courier-avfilter = 3.11-1.lbn42
courier-avfilter(x86-64) = 3.11-1.lbn42