AMAVISD-NEW(8) System Manager's Manual AMAVISD-NEW(8)
NAME
amavisd-new - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters
SYNOPSIS
amavisd-new [ -u userid ] [ -g groupid ] [ -c config-file ]... [ start
| stop | reload | debug | debug-sa | foreground ]
DESCRIPTION
amavisd is a high-performance interface between message transfer agent
(MTA) and virus scanners and/or spam scanners.
This is the amavisd-new incarnation of amavisd. It is a performance-
enhanced and feature-enriched version of the original amavisd program.
Amavisd-new works as a SMTP proxy. Email is fed to it through SMTP,
processed, and fed back to the MTA through a new SMTP connection.
There is no buffering to disk by amavis, it will report that the trans-
fer was sucessfull only after the forwarding MTA has accepted the mes-
sage.
It is possible to use the sendmail milter interface instead of the SMTP
proxy method, as well.
OPTIONS
-c configfile
Use the specified configuration file instead of using run-
parts(8) to find config files in /usr/share/amavis/conf.d and
/etc/amavis/conf.d (this is a Debian extension to Amavisd-new).
More than one -c option can be specified and the files will be
read in the order given.
-u userid
Try to switch to that user id.
-g groupid
Try to switch to that group id.
start Starts amavisd-new
stop Stops a running amavisd-new
reload Reloads configuration from config file (may in fact just restart
amavisd-new)
debug Runs amavisd-new in debug mode
debug-sa
Runs amavisd-new in spamassassin debug mode
foreground
Does not fork to background
FILES
/etc/amavis/amavisd.conf, /var/lib/amavis, /var/run/amavis/amavisd.pid
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/amavisd-new/*
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@de-
bian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
2003-01-01 AMAVISD-NEW(8)
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