Sophos anti-virus and anti-spam clients

Installation

Follow the instructions in our manual to add our package repository and then run the below command.

Ubuntu

apt-get install halon-extras-sophos

RHEL

yum install halon-extras-sophos

Exported functions

These functions needs to be imported from the extras://sophos module path.

sophos_av(fp[, options])

Scan a File pointer (fp) with the Sophos anti-virus. If attachements are scanned separately, change the rfc822 options to false.

Params

• fp File - the mail file
• options array - options array

The following options are available in the options array.

• rfc822 boolean - Scan the content as a "rfc822" message (do not rely on auto-detection). The default is true.
• timeout number - Timeout in seconds. The default is 5 seconds.
• path string - Path to a the savdid unix socket. The default is /var/run/sssp.sock
• address string - Address of the savdid server.
• port number - TCP port of the savdid server.

Returns

An associative array, with a virus property containing a list of viruses found (array of strings). If an error occures an error property (string) is set contaning the error message.

Example

import { sophos_av } from "extras://sophos";

$sophos = sophos_av($mail->toFile());
if ($sophos["virus"])
  Reject("Virus found");

sophos_as(fp[, options])

Scan a File pointer (fp) with the Sophos anti-spam.

Params

• fp File - the mail file
• options array - options array

The following options are available in the options array.

• timeout number - Timeout in seconds. The default is 5 seconds.
• address string - Address of the sasi daemon (lased) server.
• port number - TCP port of the sasi daemon (lased) server.

Returns

An associative array with all X-LASED- headers included (without the prefix). Spam determination should use the Spam array value (Confirmed or NonSpam). If an error occures an error property (string) is set contaning the error message.

Example

import { sophos_as } from "extras://sophos";

$sophos = sophos_as($mail->toFile());
if ($sophos["Spam"] == "Confirmed")
  Reject("Spam");