Next Previous Contents

# How to Install Amavis-milter for Debian Sendmail

## Jean-Paul Stewart <jps@maxlingua.com>

23.10.2001

This document provides a step-by-step guide to the installation and configuration of the Amavis antivirus software available from on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. It has been adapted from the documentation available there. Amavis supports many different methods of implementation. I have chosen to implement Amavis-libmilter as the interface between Amavis and Sendmail. Another option with Amavis + Sendmail, which I am not describing here, involves employing Amavis as a sort of intermediate local delivery agent. Please be advised that this software requires an existing CLI antivirus scanning engine and database. The selection and procurement of such software is not discussed in this document. There is ample information available at the amavis.org site. These installation examples make extensive use of the outstanding Sendmail and libmilter-dev Debian packages maintained by Richard " cowboy" Nelson. Thanks Cowboy! Thank you Amavis developers!

## 1. Software Dependencies

## 2. Installing the Software Dependencies

## 3. Example Installation of an Antivirus Scanner

## 4. Obtaining the Libmilter Sourcecode and Libraries

## 5. Obtaining the Amavis Sourcecode

- 5.1 Checking the latest copy out of CVS
- 5.2 If the CVS copy blows chunks

## 6. Building Amavis

## 7. Installing and Running Amavis

## 8. An Example Startup script

Next Previous Contents