Best way to use clamav (MTA or MailScanner)

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Next, run something like a clamav-milter and reject as many viruses as 
> possible without causing false positives and/or delay in incoming mail. 
> You wouldn't want the sending MTA to timeout due to clamav-milter taking 
> a lot of time.
> 
> Finally run clamavmodule OR clamscan at the mailscanner level to get rid 
> of any archives that couldn't be unpacked at the clamav-milter level 
> (say rar, lha, arj etc..)

This is one of the reasons I use clamav-milter *and* clamavmodule. One 
will sometimes pick up what the other one misses for whatever reason.


Regards,

Alex Neuman
N&K Technology Consultants
http://nkpanama.com/