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A web service that receives emails via HTTP and scans them with one or many filtering engines (antivirus, antispam, policy engines, etc.)
Send emails to be scanned as standard HTTP file upload.
curl -X POST -F eicar=@eicar.eml localhost:8000/scan
Sent metadata about the connection / message as HTTP headers.
curl -X POST -F eicar=@eicar.eml -H 'X-GeoIP: AS, CN, Fuzhou' -H 'X-Remote-IP: 27.150.160.26' localhost:8000/scan
The response is a JSON encoded array, with the request and response for each available scanner.
[
{
"name":"clamav",
"pass":[],
"fail":["Eicar-Test-Signature"],
"error":[],
"raw":"/Users/matt/Documents/git/ess/spool/upload_9f8c482aaaa10fcf501bf5259c00746c.eml: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND\n"
},
{
"name":"spamassassin",
"pass":["ham"],
"fail":[],
"raw":"SPAMD/1.1 0
EX_OK\r\nContent-length: 62\r\nSpam: False ; 2.3 /
5.0\r\n\r\nAPOSTROPHE_FROM,MISSING_DATE,MISSING_MID,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS","error":[]},{"pass":["5646b98f634915112796250"],"fail":[],"name":"dspam","raw":"X-DSPAM-Result:
matt; result=\"Innocent\"; class=\"Whitelisted\"; probability=0.0000; confidence=0.99; signature=5646b98f634915112796250\n",
"error":[]
},
{
"name":"opendkim",
"pass":[],
"fail":["message not signed"],
"raw":"opendkim: /Users/matt/Documents/git/ess/spool/upload_9f8c482aaaa10fcf501bf5259c00746c.eml: message not signed\n",
"error":[]
}
]
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The npm package ecsd receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, ecsd popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ecsd demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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