ClamAV and MailScanner Bug

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:

>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.
>
No need, now it auto-detects if there is likely to be a problem, and
works around it for you.

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