MS 4.55.9 not detecting Mail::ClamAV

[Julian Field]

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René Berber wrote:
> Res wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, René Berber wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I think Martin is wrong and the MS documentation does recommend using
>>> the perl
>>> module for performance reasons.
>>>       
>> The perl module cant handle constantly large batches, it used to bail
>> all the time, although clamscan itself handled it with high loading,
>> installed f-prot and rarely a splirt on the load above spamassassin.
>>     
> [snip]
>
> Interesting info.  Perhaps it is time to _change_ the clamav wrapper and start
> using clamdscan, why? two reasons:
>   
But that's the point of using clamavmodule, you don't rely on clamdscan. 
It just talks straight to the libraries and doesn't depend on squirting 
the message down a socket. That's the whole point of clamavmodule, you 
don't have to depend on a daemon. What happens when the daemon dies for 
some unknown reason? You lose your mail transport. Clamavmodule doesn't 
suffer this problem. That's partially why I wrote it.

> 1. To handle high loads, like Res' experience shows.  Some actual experience
> with clamdscan would be useful; it is designed for situations like the ones
> where MS works (perhaps this is the 3rd reason).
>
> 2. To use when there are no alternatives, f-prot is good for Linux servers but
> what is available for Solaris/BSD/OS-X/etc. ?
>   

Jules

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