Avira antivir mailgate suite Manuel D’Utilisation

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Avira AntiVir MailGate

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5.1

MailGate Spool Directories

AntiVir MailGate isolates infected emails in "quarantine". Depending on the 
configuration, a message about the detection of a virus/unwanted program is sent 
to postmaster and/or the sender and/or recipient of the email. These parameters 
can be set in the file 

avmailgate.conf

 (see 

Spool

directories

 The spool directory (default: 

/var/spool/avmailgate/

) contains three sub-

directories:

z

incoming

: incoming emails that must be scanned.

z

outgoing

: scanned emails that can be forwarded.

z

rejected

: emails containing a virus/unwanted program, or classified as 

problematic due to a MIME error, for example.

Spool files

In these directories, each email is represented by two files:

z

data file

z

control file

The name of the data file begins with 

df-

 and contains an ID

(for example 

32557-0BE692EB

). 

The control file has the same ID, but according to its status its name begins with:

z

xf-

: control file has just been processed;

z

qf-

: the email is to be subjected to a virus scan;

z

Qf-

: the email is to be forwarded without scanning;

z

vf-

: the email contains a virus/unwanted program;

z

mf-

: the email has a MIME problem.

Example

z

Data file: 

df-32557-0BE692EB

z

Corresponding control file: 

qf-32557-0BE692EB