ClamAV and MailScanner Bug

[Scott Silva]

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Rose, Bobby wrote:
> Ok the issue has been solve though I don't understand why clamav has
> issue with this when clamavmodule or sophos doesn't.
> The Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming is softlinked to
> /tmp which is a tmpfs volume. Changing it to a absolute path does fix
> the issue when using clamav as the scanner.  As I mentioned before, I
> used to use both Sophos and clamav as the scanners but stopped using
> sophos for licensing costs.  The issue was never noticed because sophos
> didn't care about the work directory and was catching what was falling
> thru the cracks with clamav.   Using sophos or clamavmodule with the
> Incoming Work Dir using a non-absolute path worked fine and since
> Incoming Work Dir path that I was using in MailScanner.conf was the
> default value, so there was never a moment that my scrutiny would have
> noticed the comments for that setting.
>

I have been using McAfee also for a couple of years, and since it also
brainfarts on symlinks, I haven't had that problem.
I just have /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming mounted in fstab to tmpfs.
No fuss, no muss, no McAfee fumbles.
If Clam is now going to have problems, maybe it should be noted in the
docs.

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