Scanning Email Messages Using Amavis - ESET MAIL SECURITY - ANNEXE 209 Installation Manual

5.5.1.2. Testing the antivirus Plugin.
On Unix and MacOS X System:
Launch the esets_cgp application from its directory:
/usr/bin/esets_cgp
It will report the Plugin name.
Type the following command (replace filename with name of existing file):
1 FILE filename
the Plugin should indicate if a virus is found.
Quit esets_cgp by pressing CTRL + D.

5.5.2. Scanning email messages using AMaViS

AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner) is a tool that interfaces your MTA with several antivirus scanners.
It supports various MTAs and comes in three branches: amavis, amavisd and amavisd-new.
AMaViS cooperates with ESET Mail Security by using esets_cli. Before explaining the AMaViS
configurations, the impact of the ESET Mail Security functionality method is described.
AMaViS does not allow modification of scanned email messages and denies ESETS access to
clean or delete infected email attachments. As a result, the ESETS footnote with log and status
dependent header fields will not be written into the email message. Also, AMaViS does not
provide mail sender/recipient information. Thus, user specific configurations are unavailable and
advanced mail handling features (accept, defer, discard, reject) are limited for esets_cli. Lastly,
AMaViS only scans files, it cannot use the ESETS anti-spam engine.
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