(how-to) sophossavi installation guide
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(how-to) sophossavi installation guide
Adding an antivirus to Efa / MailScanner means to add a cpu intensive process that is inaccettable for me
I found that without antivirus each messages takes about 3 / 5 sec/cpu to be processed for spam
Adding an antivirus can take additional 5 / 15 sec/cpu
So total server Cpu increase a lot and can be inaccettable
Only clamd and sophossavi have a daemon that runs in memory and are cpu inexpensive
clamd is included in efa instalaltion
sophossavi was difficoult to use because was written in 32bit and is undocumented
I wrote these simple instructions to install and use it
Please note that i am talking of sophossavi and not sophos option in MailScanner.conf
If someone try this can tell me about it
I found that without antivirus each messages takes about 3 / 5 sec/cpu to be processed for spam
Adding an antivirus can take additional 5 / 15 sec/cpu
So total server Cpu increase a lot and can be inaccettable
Only clamd and sophossavi have a daemon that runs in memory and are cpu inexpensive
clamd is included in efa instalaltion
sophossavi was difficoult to use because was written in 32bit and is undocumented
I wrote these simple instructions to install and use it
Please note that i am talking of sophossavi and not sophos option in MailScanner.conf
If someone try this can tell me about it
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Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
I'm going to try it, and I'll tell you how it goes.
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Sophos SAVI works well
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Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
works for me, too. 

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this is great because antivirus not daemonized are unusable for me
before i used clamav and sophos
changing to sophosavi i reduced efa vm from 12 to 4 cpu !
before i used clamav and sophos
changing to sophosavi i reduced efa vm from 12 to 4 cpu !
Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
Hi Nicola,
It’s working. Thanks for your document.
How did you add Sophos SAVI on Virus report? It’s not showing up in scanner column.
It’s working. Thanks for your document.
How did you add Sophos SAVI on Virus report? It’s not showing up in scanner column.
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Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
Nothing done in virus report, if you dont see i suppose you havent received viruses detected by savi at now
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It's not catching test virus 'EICAR-AV-Test' on the report.
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EICAR CATCH is excluded by report, you need to include it modifiyng source or wait to receive virus
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Okay, thanks. Waiting for virus 

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i modified report but i dont remember where
if you have echange consider to use OW plugin
if you have echange consider to use OW plugin
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Okay, I'll check it out later.
Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
Password protected zip file is blocked by SophosSAVI '.zip caused an error: File was encrypted (530)', where I need to change to disable this.
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Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
somewhere there is this, buit for me is ok so
Re: (how-to) sophossavi installation guide
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
##Allowed Sophos Error Messages =
Allowed Sophos Error Messages = "File was encrypted", "Password protected file"
This will allow encrypted/password protected files to pass.
##Allowed Sophos Error Messages =
Allowed Sophos Error Messages = "File was encrypted", "Password protected file"
This will allow encrypted/password protected files to pass.