[clamav-users] Scanning emails

[Ralph Seichter]

* Bev Clues via clamav-users:

> Can you tell me if clamd / clamdscan will scan email attachments as
> well as the email file.

Clamdscan will scan whatever you pass as an argument. However, with
email it is common practice to have additional software like Amavis
(https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis) that splits mail into its MIME parts,
including attachments, and then call ClamAV to check the segments.

I can heartily recommend using Amavis plus ClamAV instead of invoking
clamdscan some custom fashion. Every popular Linux distribution should
have Amavis pre-packaged.

-Ralph