01-21-2003
This has been discussed in the forums. Keyword search would yield prior discussions.
Bottom line: most people do not use antiviral software on linux... linux OS is different than Windows, where antiviral software is required.
Filtering email based virus is a different subject and applies to all mail servers that receive and queue mail regardless of OS.
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mailgraph
MAILGRAPH(8) System Manager's Manual MAILGRAPH(8)
NAME
mailgraph - daemon which produces graphs of SMTP traffic
SYNOPSIS
mailgraph [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
mailgraph is a daemon which produces mail statistics RRDtool for Postfix and Sendmail. This stats are stored for generating daily, weekly,
monthly and yearly graphs of sent/received/rejected and bounced/viruses/spam mails.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help and exit.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose about what you do.
-V, --version
Output version information and exit.
-c, --cat
Cause the logfile to be only read and not monitored.
-l, --logfile file
Monitor logfile file instead of /var/log/syslog.
-t, --logtype type
Set logfile's type (default: syslog).
-y, --year
Start year of the log file (default: current year).
--host=HOST
Use only entries for HOST (regexp) in syslog.
-d, --daemon
Start in the background
--daemon-pid=FILE
Write PID to FILE instead of /var/run/mailgraph.pid.
--daemon-rrd=DIR
Write RRDs to DIR instead of /var/lib/mailgraph/.
--daemon-log=FILE
Write verbose-log to FILE instead of /var/log/mailgraph.log.
--ignore-localhost
Ignore mail to/from localhost (used for virus scanner).
--ignore-host=HOST
Ignore mail to/from HOST (used for virus scanner).
--no-mail-rrd
Do not update the mail rrd.
--no-virus-rrd
Do not update the virus rrd.
--no-greylist-rrd
Do not update the greylist rrd.
--rrd-name=NAME
Use NAME.rrd, NAME_virus.rrd and NAME_greylist.rrd for the rrd files.
--rbl-is-spam
Count rbl rejects as spam.
--virbl-is-virus
Count virbl rejects as viruses.
SEE ALSO
rrdtool(1), RRDs(3pm)
AUTHOR
David Schweikert <dws@ee.ethz.ch>
MAILGRAPH(8)