This article shows how to integrate amavisdnew into a postfix mail server for spam and virusscanning. Use amavisdnew for spam and virusscanning howtoforge. Henderson, but rewritten to reflect a debian installation and contains a considerable amount of additional information. Please note that systemctl is part of the systemd suite, which is available starting with debian 8 jessie. Now we have to configure postfix to pipe incoming email through amavisdnew.
Debian jessie mail server configuration using postfix dovecot. If you are sure youre using jessie, you can check how these services are called by. Debian antispam antivirus gateway email server using postfix, amavisdnew. How to add antivirus and spam protection to postfix mail server with clamav and spamassassin part 3. Install amavisd and clamav server, and start clamav server first. Debian details of package amavisdnew in sid debian packages. They include postgrey policy server implementing greylisting, amavisdnew as a wrapper between postfix and other components like spamassasin as the spam filter, clamav as the virus scanner, and spf and dkim libraries. We will use clamav for virus scanning and spamassassin for spam scanning in this tutorial. Here is a starting point if using debian squeeze, use either the i386 32bit or amd64 64bit netinst cd. Postfixamavisnew community help wiki ubuntu documentation. Setup amavisdnew with spamassassin and clamav with postfix. Postfix can deliver mail to mbox or maildir formatted mailboxes by itself, but since i want to do a little more mail processing, i am going to install an. In this howto, postfix integration with amavisnew will be presented. How to install postfix, amavis, clamav, and spamassassin.
I installed and configured the mail server this summer debian 9. Amavisdnew is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent mta with zero or more virus scanners, and spamassassin optional. When testing the sending only emails to gmail usually gets the main box. How to use the linux ftp command to up and download files on the shell. Install amavisd, clamav and spamassassin marek bosman.
It supports all common virus scanners more than 20 different avs, with direct talktodaemon support for clamav, openantivirus, trophie, avg, fprot, and sophos avs. Although this describes the install process on debian linux, it should be the same. Config centos 6 with postfix, amavisnew, clamav and. Mail gateway med sendmail, amavisdnew, clamav och spamassassin in. How to install postfix, amavis, clamav, and spamassassin on. How to add antivirus and spam protection to postfix mail. Amavisd will pass all incoming mail to our antivirus and antispam and verify that we are receiving a clean mail, but at this moment we have postfix and amavisd isolated, we need make a small integration. These lines below are added in the header section of emails after this configuration and emails with known virus will not sent to clients. We still need to tell postfix to make use of amavisdnew. Debian antispam antivirus gateway email server using postfix, amavisdnew, spamassassin, razor, dcc, pyzor and clamav howto, by gary v inspired by a document originally created by scott l. Quick and dirty installation of postfix, amavisdnew, spamassassin.