Re: ClamAV with Alpine on Ubuntu

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Dear Ken,

Thanks for your replies.

I haven't learned to use procmail yet, but am definitely intent on doing so
when I have some time. At the moment, I simply run Alpine locally and gmail
does everything else. Somehow or other, the messages in question got
through gmail's normally excellent filters, which is why I suspect they may
be false positives. My interest in using ClamAV is that I may not always be
using gmail.

As for the specifics you mention, I suppose it would be less trouble to
scan messages as they are saved locally. I know that gmail isn't always
cooperative about remote access, so this would probably save some
bandwidth. But I'll be glad to follow your suggestions as to the most
efficient thing to do.

- dpb

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you are IMAPing doesn't google/gmail do virus scanning?  If you are
> fetching, then the solution is found by linking procmail to clamav, not
> alpine to clamav.
>
>
> Or, more specifics would help. Do you want alpine to make clamav scan a
> remote IMAP message on the gmail servers, or scan a message as it is save=
d
> to the local folder but before that folder is modified?
>
>   -k.
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 13:27, David Prager Branner <[email protected]=
>
> wrote:
>
> I am using Alpine 2.00 on Ubuntu 10.04.3 to access accounts on
> smtp.gmail.com, with great satisfaction. I have two questions.
>
> 1. Recently I discovered that the antivirus software ClamAV has identifie=
d
> a virus =E2=80=94 perhaps a false positive =E2=80=94 in one of the "folde=
r" files that
> Alpine saves messages to on my server. I'm unable to locate the offending
> text or code manually, and am wondering if Alpine can be configured to wo=
rk
> with ClamAV to identify a specific message in a "folder" more precisely.
>
> 2. A related question is whether it is possible to configure Alpine to
> scan incoming mail using ClamAV as it arrives, rather than when it is sav=
ed
> to disk.
>
> I find no references to "clamav" in the archives of this list.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David Branner
> brannerchinese.com
>
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Dear Ken,<br><br>Thanks for your replies. <br><br>I haven&#39;t learned to =
use procmail yet, but am definitely intent on doing so when I have some tim=
e. At the moment, I simply run Alpine locally and gmail does everything els=
e. Somehow or other, the messages in question got through gmail&#39;s norma=
lly excellent filters, which is why I suspect they may be false positives. =
My interest in using ClamAV is that I may not always be using gmail.<br>
<br>As for the specifics you mention, I suppose it would be less trouble to=
 scan messages as they are saved locally. I know that gmail isn&#39;t alway=
s cooperative about remote access, so this would probably save some bandwid=
th. But I&#39;ll be glad to follow your suggestions as to the most efficien=
t thing to do.<br>

<br>- dpb<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:53 PM=
, Ken Mankoff <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">ma=
[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" =
style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF"><div>If you are IMAPing doesn&#39;t google/gmail d=
o virus scanning? =C2=A0If you are fetching, then the solution is found by =
linking procmail to clamav, not alpine to clamav.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div=
><div><br>
</div><div><span>Or, more specifics would help. Do you want alpine to make =
clamav scan a remote IMAP message on the gmail servers, or scan a message a=
s it is saved to the local folder but before that folder is modified?</span=
><br>
</div><div class=3D"im"><div><br>=C2=A0=C2=A0-k.<div><br></div></div><div><=
br>On Feb 20, 2012, at 13:27, David Prager Branner &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:br=
[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; =
wrote:<br><br>
</div><div></div></div><div><div class=3D"h5"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><di=
v>I am using Alpine 2.00 on Ubuntu 10.04.3 to access accounts on <a href=3D=
"http://smtp.gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">smtp.gmail.com</a>, with great sa=
tisfaction. I have two questions.<br>

<br>
1. Recently I discovered that the antivirus software ClamAV has=20
identified a virus =E2=80=94 perhaps a false positive =E2=80=94 in one of t=
he &quot;folder&quot;=20
files that Alpine saves messages to on my server. I&#39;m unable to locate =
the offending text=20
or code manually, and am wondering if Alpine can be configured to work=20
with ClamAV to identify a specific message in a &quot;folder&quot; more pre=
cisely.<br>
<br>
2. A related question is whether it is possible to configure Alpine to=20
scan incoming mail using ClamAV as it arrives, rather than when it is=20
saved to disk.<br>
<br>
I find no references to &quot;clamav&quot; in the archives of this list.<br=
>
<br>
Thanks for your help.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
David Branner<br><a href=3D"http://brannerchinese.com" target=3D"_blank">br=
annerchinese.com</a><br>
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