enabling or disabling spamassassin or clamav

January 5, 2008 by gregorgede · Leave a Comment
Filed under: spamassassin 

using qmail, qmail-scanner, spamassassin, clamav. sometimes when clamav causing error and needs update, the entire mail delivery will fail. while updating clamav, we can tell qmail-scanner not to use it so the mail delivery will continue without clamav. to enable or disable clamav or spamassassin find these lines in /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl :

my @scanners_installed=(”clamdscan_scanner”,”spamassassin”,”perlscan_scanner”);
my @scanners_default=(”clamdscan_scanner”,”spamassassin”,”perlscan_scanner”);

to enable only spamassassin, turn it to be :

my @scanners_installed=(”spamassassin”);
my @scanners_default=(”spamassassin”);

to enable only clamav, turn it to be :

my @scanners_installed=(”clamdscan_scanner“);
my @scanners_default=(”
clamdscan_scanner“);


save and then do this :

$ setuidgid qscand /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g
$ setuidgid qscand /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z



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