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# Whitelist

## Whitelist specific ClamAV signatures

You may find that legitimate (clean) mail is being blocked by ClamAV (Rspamd will flag the mail with `VIRUS_FOUND`). For instance, interactive PDF form attachments are blocked by default because the embedded Javascript code may be used for nefarious purposes. Confirm by looking at the clamd logs, e.g.:

    docker-compose logs clamd-mailcow | grep "FOUND"

This line confirms that such was identified:

    clamd-mailcow_1      | Sat Sep 28 07:43:24 2019 -> instream(local): PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJavaScript-1(e887d2ac324ce90750768b86b63d0749:363325) FOUND

To whitelist this particular signature (and enable sending this type of file attached), add it to the ClamAV signature whitelist file:

    echo 'PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJavaScript-1' >> data/conf/clamav/whitelist.ign2

Then restart the clamd-mailcow service container in the mailcow UI or using docker-compose:

    docker-compose restart clamd-mailcow

Cleanup cached ClamAV results in Redis:

    # docker-compose exec redis-mailcow  /bin/sh
    /data # redis-cli KEYS rs_cl* | xargs redis-cli DEL
    /data # exit

Last update: 2022-04-07 18:58:00
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