Re: [Evolution] Evolution & KlamAV

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

According to the code in camel-filter-driver.c:pipe_to_system(),
Evolution does in fact re-read the message from the piped program and
replaces the pre-filtered message with it.

Jeff

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:51 -0400, Tom Krishan wrote: 
> Hello,
>
> The instructions for using KlamAV with Evolution are as follows:
>
> > Mail scanning support is provided by a program called 'klammail'. This was
> > installed automatically as part of the KlamAV installation. to use this
> > program to scan your email as you send and recieve it you need to set up a
> > 'filter' in Ximian Evolution to 'pipe' mail through klammmail as it is
> > coming in/going out. You should then set up a filter after this one to put
> > any mail with the word 'virus-found' in the header in to the quarantine
> > folder of your choice- The mail will be clearly marked as infected and will
> > tell you the name of the virus and who the mail is from.
>
> This all sounds simple until one realizes that the only piping command
> included in Evolution for message filters is a "pipe TO" command, not a
> "Pipe THROUGH" command as in Kmail.  The result is that the message is sent
> off to klammail, it is processed but Evolution continues to use the original
> message with the headers unchanged.  Consequently, subsequent filters in
> Evolution looking for "virus-found" will always provide negative results.
>
> I do not know of a way to get the klammail processed message piped back into
> Evolution.  Is there anyone who can help me sort this out?
>
> In the meatime I have removed KlamAV and only using clamAV with the
> following command in the Evolution filter "pipe to" command":
>
> > "clamscan --quiet -"
>
> This returns a 0 or 1 result depending upon the scan result which can be
> used by Evolution in a conditional filter sequence.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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