Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Kapetanakis Giannis
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:29 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Upgrade to clamav 0.90.2 makes scanning extremely slow
> 
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Daniel Maher wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > 
> > There's also the peace of mind in knowing that if the
> > clam package is updated, I don't have to worry about a
> > newly deprecated Perl module preventing me from scanning mail -
> > a situation for which there is relatively recent precedent.
> > ...
> > 
> > °v°  Daniel Maher
> 
> Correct me on this Julian,
> but if I'm not wrong the perl package
> is using libclamav.
> 
> So it's not a matter of being outdated,
> unless clamav package itself is outdated.
> 
> Giannis
> 

The last two major upgrades of libclamav resulted in the removal and
addition of several symbols used by Mail::ClamAV and these changes were not
backward compatible  so as to allow for 3d part developers time to modify
their software. This brought Mail::ClamAV to a halt until the developer
could make the required changes and the time  required was measured in weeks
in both incidents.

Rick