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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.:

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

This line confirms that such was identified:

text 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:

bash 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:

bash 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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