ClamAV on FreeBSD - ports or Perl module?

[Adri Koppes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> Sent: donderdag 3 augustus 2006 8:10
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: ClamAV on FreeBSD - ports or Perl module?
> 
> On Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:06 PM Drew Marshall wrote:
> 
> Drew, thanks for the wake-up call off-list. :-)
> 
> >>> I would always say go with the ports. 
> 
> Yes. You should do that with every software available as a port.
> 
> >>> They are up dated pretty
> >>> regularly so never far behind the source any way.
> 
> Well in case of MailScanner: Mea culpa once again. I will try 
> to produce an up-to-date version today.
> 
> >> http://www.freshports.org/mail/p5-Mail-ClamAV/
> >> 
> >> See entry on 23 Feb 2004
> 
> So long ago. Let me search my memory. :-) At that time the 
> module required threaded perl to work. I am not sure whether 
> or not this was a perl or a clamav requirement. Recompiling 
> perl with threaded support helped but personally gave me 
> other problems so I always went for the command-line version. 
> If others say it works with the non-threaded version now 
> things might have changed. I will give it a try (maybe this 
> afternoon). Are you "only" getting the warning in 
> pkg-message? If so I would guess it is just an outdated warning. 

Jan Peter,

I have been using p5-Mail-ClamAV 0.30 with the standard perl 5.8.6 on
FreeBSD 5.4 without any problems for over 1 year now.

Regards,

Adri.