[Mimedefang] Runtime Virus Scanner Detection

[Jason Englander]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Richard Laager wrote:

> I'm just curious, is there a reason that the list of available virus
> scanners is detected at compile-time instead of at run-time?

Walking through one's path looking for binaries each time a new slave
starts would be very, very bad for a high volume system.

> Furthermore, why aren't message_contains_virus() and
> entity_contains_virus() part of the MIMEDefang code? Ideally they would
> scan using all available virus scanners, not just the first.

Configurability.  What if you don't want to scan with all available virus
scanners.

  Jason

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