Installation
Use your system's amavis package if possible.
Prerequisites
Software dependencies are tracked via
Dist::Zilla. Some of them involve
non-perl development libraries and GCC as a build dependency if obtained from
CPAN:
libdblibidn2libssllibzmq3
On Debian 11 for example, one can install them via
apt-get install build-essential libdist-zilla-perl libdb-dev libidn2-dev libssl-dev libzmq3-dev
Obtaining the software
Choose a version, fetch the tarball and unpack it:
VERSION=master
curl -O https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/-/archive/$VERSION/amavis-$VERSION.tar.gz
gzip -d -c amavis-$VERSION.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd amavis-$VERSION
Privileged installation
- Run
dzil install. - Prepare a configuration file, owned by
root, possibly based on
conf/amavisd.conf. - Prepare a dedicated user, e.g.
vscan. - Create directories for
$MYHOME,$db_homeand$TEMPBASE. - Run
sa-update. - Run
amavisd -c /path/to/amavis.conf debug
Unprivileged installation
A purely unprivileged mode of operation and bootstrapping is not supported. In
the end, the config file needs to be owned by root.
Moreover, perl's taint mode prohibits externally defined non-standard library
paths, so running amavis from a local perl environment via local::lib will
not work without code modifications.
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