[Mimedefang] Vexira not being launched by MIMEDefang

John Rowan Littell littejo at earlham.edu
Tue Sep 2 15:11:01 EDT 2003


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Lo, Cormack, Ken and the coffee pot sang in unison:

[Vexira mimedfang.pl description snipped]
>
> ... and "mimedefang.pl -features" reports File::Scan NO installed, and
> VEXIRA installed, but MIMEDefang seems to make no attempt to call vexira, to
> process a message.  Even the EICAR test file gets through.
>
> Note that when I manually scan an EICAR-containing file using Vexira from
> the commandline, it DOES report that it sees the EICAR test data in the test
> file.  So I know the vexira product is correctlt installed and functioning.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>

I suspect that this depends heavily on the mimedefang-filter script
that you use.  If you have a message_contains_virus sub in your
filter, you'll need to explicitly reference Vexira, e.g.:

sub message_contains_virus () {
	return message_contains_virus_vexira() if ($Features{'Virus:VEXIRA'});

	[etc.]
}

I don't, off the top of my head, know whether the suggested filters
contain Vexira calls yet or not (I have largely rewritten our site's
filter from scratch).  Can you post the relevant section of your
filter?

  --rowan

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John "Rowan" Littell
Systems Administrator
Earlham College Computing Services
http://www.earlham.edu/~littejo/
2003-09-02 14:07
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