[Mimedefang] Re: ClamAV and EICAR tests

[Jeremy Mates]

* Andrew S. Johnson <andy at asjohnson.com>
> I've setup mimedefang to use clamav (I think), but when I send the
> EICAR test virus it doesn't seem to get picked up. How do I need to
> put the test payload into an e-mail so that clamav will pick it up? I
> looked in the clamav db file and the EICAR virus signature is there,
> so that's not it.

My MIMEDefang/clamav setups detect Eicar properly; you probably
misconfigured one (or more) things somewhere along the line. The
following documentation may help.

http://sial.org/howto/mimedefang/clamav/