[Mimedefang] clamav on debian

[Richard Laager]

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> Virus-scanners are more expensive to detect at run-time (you 
> have to scan
> PATH) and there's room for error (you could have an executable
> called "sweep" on your path that has nothing to do with a
> virus-scanner), so we detect them at build time.  You can, of
> course, explicitly override the detection by setting the
> appropriate $Feature{"..."} in 
> your filter.

Is there any reason that MIMEDefang couldn't have a default location
for each virus scanner and then detect those at run-time? The
./configure script could still allow for the disabling of any/all
virus scanner(s) or changing the location? Is the major concern that
someone might have an executable in the default location that's not
actually the virus scanner that MIMEDefang is expecting? Would this
be a problem for anyone in practice?

Richard Laager

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