Mail-ClamAv / ClamAv

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Richard Potter wrote:

> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:10:12 -0500 (EST)
> From: Richard Potter <rpotter at rpcs.net>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: Mail-ClamAv / ClamAv
> 
> On Wed, December 19, 2007 8:02 am, shuttlebox wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2007 1:51 PM, ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk
>> <ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Due to problems with it building the clamavmodule virus scanner, I
>>> have backed off to the previous version again. Sorry about that.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For those interested... I spent hours (and hours) last week trying to
>>> get Mail-ClamAv to install... and in the end I managed to work out it
>>> failed for the following reason...
>>
>> This has happened every other release of Clam...that Mail::Clamav gets
>> out of sync. But now there's no reason to use it anymore when MS has
>> support for clamd. Same speed and less memory used.
>
> I have also come to this conclusion. Anyone have thoughts on this, right
> or wrong?

I've got to agree here...  Clamavmodule was always a PITA with the perl 
module being out of sync.  The only reason I used it was speed.  Clamd
has worked great since Julian introduced it to MailScanner.  My two
cents: offer clamd or the original clamav version for people who can't
get clamd to go, and yank the clamavmodule stuff outta there...

Jeff Earickson
Colby College