ClamAV Mailscanner not using clamd

Rick Cooper rcooper at dwford.com
Wed Feb 4 16:53:38 GMT 2009


 

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of shuttlebox
 > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:20 AM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: Re: ClamAV Mailscanner not using clamd
 > 
 > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Ghetti, Ron
 > <Ron.Ghetti at town.barnstable.ma.us> wrote:
 > >  Some Background:
 > >  Dell PowerEdge 2950 8gb Ram
 > >  Ubuntu 7.04
 > >  Perl 5.8.8
 > >  MailScanner 4.68.8
 > >  Postfix 2.3.8
 > >
 > >  ClamAV 94.2 d/loaded from the MailScanner site.
 > >  SpamAssassin 3.2.4
 > 
 > You need at least MS 4.72 to use Clam 0.94.x, so much has changed in
 > Clam that you can't use 4.68.

This is not accurate in context. The clamd portion of MailScanner doesn't
depend on the libclamav versioning as does the perl module. The only time
the clamd portion of MS would need updated would be if the clamav team
altered the basic protocol and it has been years since they have done that.
There might be some tweaks to the parser that have taken place since 4.68.8
but changes to clamav it's self have no direct relationship to MS clamd
scanner. In fact you can completely update a clamav package and never even
restart MailScanner.

BTW: I think this also makes a good argument for supporting spamd, at least
optionally. It uses less resources, is just as fast as the perl module,
allows for updating without restarting MS. The only drawback I see would be
the MCP functions. One would have to run to spamd instances on different
sockets because you cannot pass spamd a config file once it's running... But
I would bet you would still see quite a reduction in resource usage even
with two daemons.

Rick


 > 
 > Read more here: http://mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
 > 
 > I would also recommend using SA 3.2.5 even though it has 
 > nothing to do
 > with this problem.
 > 
 > -- 
 > /peter


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