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How to disable Clamav or Spamassassin check in amavis?

Hi everyone, I have a necessity to disable antivirus checks in amavis but I saw /etc/amavis/conf.d files but without success.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Uninstall clamav and restart amavisd.

Hi Till

By the way. You wrote a great howto last year about this subject.

http://www.faqforge.com/linux/contro...n-ispconfig-3/

Thank you it's been very useful indeed, but I have always wondered if there is any reason why you do not disable spamassasin aswell ?

Regards

ISPConfig uses amavis (which internally uses the spamassassin libraries) and not spamassassin, so disabling amavis as described in the FAQ disables the spamfilter and antivirus filter.

Hi Till

Thanks for your answer.
After following the FAQ, I do still have spamassassin running in the background.

Code:

server:~# ps aux | grep spamd

root      2079  0.0  2.1 106068 43648 ?        Ss   Mar23   5:11 /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid

root      2657  0.0  0.0   6588   780 pts/0    S+   12:08   0:00 grep spamd

root      3001  0.0  2.0 106068 41572 ?        S    Mar23   0:02 spamd child

root      3004  0.0  2.0 106068 41572 ?        S    Mar23   0:01 spamd child

server:~#

Is this normal, or do I have a misconfigured server?
If it is not going to be used, I guess it should be safe to stop in order to save some resources.

Code:

/etc/init.d/spamassassin stop

Regards

Quote:

Is this normal, or do I have a misconfigured server?

This is spamd not from ispconfig. You can disable it.

Thanks for the answer.

Disabling spamassasin seems to free up to 44 MB of ram in my server.

Regards

I use Amavis and was looking to disable ClamAV, but not SpamAssassin.

First, I tried stopping the ClamAV service, but the following messages appeared in /var/log/mail.log:

Code:

amavis[3188]: (03188-16) (!)ClamAV-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 2, retrying (2)

amavis[3188]: (03188-16) (!)ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory) at (eval 117) line 373.\n

amavis[3188]: (03188-16) (!!)WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups

Needless to say, I didn't want these messages in my log, even though Amavis appeared to function OK despite them.

So, I tried this approach next:

Quote:

Originally Posted by till (Post 254429)

Uninstall clamav and restart amavisd.

But /var/log/mail.log began filling-up with these similar but slightly longer messages:

Code:

amavis[14163]: (14163-01) (!)ClamAV-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 2, retrying (2)

amavis[14163]: (14163-01) (!)ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory) at (eval 117) line 373.\n

amavis[14163]: (14163-01) (!!)WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups

amavis[14163]: (14163-01) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail: virus_scan FAILED: AV: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED

amavis[14163]: (14163-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20120103T111031-14163

Next, I tried what seemed to be a "proper fix", per http://opensource.apple.com/source/a.../amavisd.conf:

Quote:

# COMMONLY ADJUSTED SETTINGS:

# @bypass_virus_checks_maps = (1); # uncomment to DISABLE anti-virus code

So, I un-commented the following lines in /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-content_filter_mode:

Code:

#@bypass_virus_checks_maps = (

#   \%bypass_virus_checks, \@bypass_virus_checks_acl, \$bypass_virus_checks_re);

and restarted Amavis:

Code:

service amavis restart

Well, this still didn't do the job. The same messages continued to appear in the mail log.

So, as a last resort, I commented-out the following lines (the lines with ##) in /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-av_scanners:

Code:

### http://www.clamav.net/

## ['ClamAV-clamd',

##   \&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"],

##   qr/\bOK$/m, qr/\bFOUND$/m,

##   qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/m ],

# NOTE: run clamd under the same user as amavisd, or run it under its own

#   uid such as clamav, add user clamav to the amavis group, and then add

#   AllowSupplementaryGroups to clamd.conf;

# NOTE: match socket name (LocalSocket) in clamav.conf to the socket name in

#   this entry; when running chrooted one may prefer socket "$MYHOME/clamd".

and, again, restarted Amavis.

I was shocked to find the following in the log, still:

Code:

amavis[17441]: (17441-01) (!!)WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups

amavis[17441]: (17441-01) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail: virus_scan FAILED: AV: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE

amavis[17441]: (17441-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20120103T113827-17441

postfix/smtp[17600]: B499634E422E: to=<user@example.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.21, delays=0.12/0.01/0.01/0.08, dsn=4.5.0, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=17441-01, virus_scan FAILED: AV: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command))

I'm running out of ideas. Does anyone know how to disable virus-checking within Amavis altogether? :mad:

Well, after making the changes mentioned in my previous post, email ceased to be delivered all together (the mail queue began to fill-up).

Upon further investigation, I realized that I had misread the Amavis documentation: it states that antivirus is disabled by default and that to enable it, un-comment

Code:

# @bypass_virus_checks_maps = (...

In other words, Amavis's behavior should be the default: not to virus scan.

Why, then, with the above line commented, am I seeing the following in /var/log/mail.log?

Code:

amavis[25694]: (25694-01) (!)ClamAV-clamd: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 2, retrying (2)

amavis[25694]: (25694-01) (!)ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory) at (eval 117) line 373.\n

amavis[25694]: (25694-01) (!!)WARN: all primary virus scanners failed, considering backups

amavis[25694]: (25694-01) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail: virus_scan FAILED: AV: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED

amavis[25694]: (25694-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20120103T132643-25694

postfix/smtp[25871]: 4F4D334E4205: to=<user@example.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=7.4, delays=0.28/0.01/0.01/7.1, dsn=4.5.0, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=25694-01, virus_scan FAILED: AV: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED (in reply to end of DATA command))

Boy, this is frustrating. :eek:

Thanks to this post ( http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44443 ), I realized my error: the change has to be made in /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user, instead, as this file overrides 15-content_filter_mode.

Code:

# Place your configuration directives here.  They will override those in

# earlier files.

#

# See /usr/share/doc/amavisd-new/ for documentation and examples of

# the directives you can use in this file

#



#@bypass_virus_checks_maps = (

#   \%bypass_virus_checks, \@bypass_virus_checks_acl, \$bypass_virus_checks_re);

Don't forget to restart Amavis:

Code:

# service amavis restart

ClamAV can then be disabled at start-up (e.g., by disabling the service on boot) or uninstalled/removed completely.

Case closed. :D