Amavisd-new
Documentation[edit | edit source]
Prerequisites[edit | edit source]
Amavisd-new is writen in perl and requires the following modules.
Archive::Zip (Archive-Zip-x.xx) (1.14 or later, currently 1.23) Compress::Zlib (Compress-Zlib-x.xx) (1.35 or later, currently 2.008) Convert::TNEF (Convert-TNEF-x.xx) Convert::UUlib (Convert-UUlib-x.xxx) (1.08 or later, stick to new versions!) MIME::Base64 (MIME-Base64-x.xx) MIME::Parser (MIME-Tools-x.xxxx) (latest version from CPAN - currently 5.425) Mail::Internet (MailTools-1.58 or later have workarounds for Perl 5.8.0 bugs) Net::Server (Net-Server-x.xx) (version 0.88 finally does setuid right) Digest::MD5 (Digest-MD5-x.xx) (2.22 or later) IO::Stringy (IO-stringy-x.xxx) Time::HiRes (Time-HiRes-x.xx) (use 1.49 or later, older can cause problems) Unix::Syslog (Unix-Syslog-x.xxx) BerkeleyDB with bdb library (preferably 4.4.20 or later) Mail::DKIM (Mail-DKIM-0.31 or later)
So when using Fedora you can run a command like the following one to install all the needed prerequisites besides Postfix, SpamAssassin, & ClamAV.
yum install perl-Archive-Zip perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Convert-TNEF perl-Convert-UUlib perl-MINE-Base64 \ perl-MINE-Parser perl-Mail-Internet perl-Net-Server perl-Digest-MD5 perl-IO-stringy perl-Time-HiRes \ perl-Unix-Syslog perl-BerkeleyDB perl-Mail-DKIM lzop p7zip arj libytnef freeze
Installing[edit | edit source]
mkdir /var/amavis mkdir /var/amavis/tmp /var/amavis/var /var/amavis/db /var/amavis/home echo "amavis:x:490:490:amavis:/var/amavis:/sbin/nologin" >> /etc/passwd echo "amavis:x:490:" >> /etc/group chown -R amavis:amavis /var/amavis chmod -R 750 /var/amavis mkdir /var/virusmails chown amavis:amavis /var/virusmails chmod 750 /var/virusmails
wget http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-2.6.1.tar.gz tar -xzf amavisd-new-2.6.1.tar.gz cd amavisd-new-2.6.1 cp amavisd /usr/local/sbin/ chown root /usr/local/sbin/amavisd chmod 755 /usr/local/sbin/amavisd cp amavisd.conf /etc/ chown root:amavis /etc/amavisd.conf chmod 640 /etc/amavisd.conf