Building an MS-SA box

Michael St. Laurent mikes at HARTWELLCORP.COM
Sat Feb 21 00:18:55 GMT 2004


Peter Bonivart <mailto:peter at UCGBOOK.COM> wrote:
> Michael St. Laurent wrote:
>> Okay, first off, you won't be needing the clamav-milter package.
>> MailScanner uses either clamscan or clamd but has no need for
>> clamav-milter.
>
> MS doesn't use clamd, only clamscan. Some have experimented with
> replacing clamscan with clamdscan in the wrapper, I'm not sure how it
> worked out but they have to worry about clamd dying, which has been
> common at least in the previous releases.

You're right.  MS does NOT use clamd.  However, IIRC, the perl module *does*
use clamd.  So when you configure MailScanner to use "clamavmodule" instead
of "clamav" you eventually are using clamd.

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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation



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