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16. Antivirus

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 4.12, page [*]. Sympa is already compatible with McAfee/uvscan, Fsecure/fsav and Trend Micro/VirusWall. For each mail received, Sympa deposits its component parts in the ~sympa/spool/tmp/antivirus directory and then calls the antivirus software to check them. When a virus is detected, Sympa looks for the virus name in the virus scanner STDOUT and sends a your_infected_msg.tpl warning to the sender of the mail. The mail is saved as 'bad' and the working directory is deleted (except if Sympa is running in debug mode).



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