[Mimedefang] build advice mimdefang 2.42

[Jerome Tytgat]

 > When I ran ./configure I noticed some entries that I would like some advice on.
You are at the good place :)


> Do I have to install all virus scanners before I configure and make? 
no, but if you have, they'll be autodetected

> what happens if I want to add another scanner later, do I have to configure and make again?
no, There's a conf file (mimedefang.pl.conf) where you define what scanner you have

this is mine :

# This file is a perl file which gets 'require'd from mimedefang
# You can set the virus-scanner paths etc.
# See mimedefang.pl

#$Features{'Virus:NAI'}      = '/usr/local/bin/uvscan';
#$Features{'Virus:SOPHOS'}    = '/usr/local/bin/sweep';
$Features{'Virus:SOPHIE'}     = '/usr/local/sbin/sophie';
$SophieSock = '/var/spool/MIMEDefang/sophie';
$Features{'Virus:CLAMD'}     = '/usr/sbin/clamd';
$ClamdSock = '/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock';

# DO NOT delete the next line, or Perl will complain.
1;

> While we are on virus scanners, at the moment I have NAI 7.0. can you give me the names / url of some free scanners just for backup.

At that point theres :
- file::scan ("Fastest" say the mimedefang team)
=> http://freshmeat.net/projects/filescan/
- clamav/clamd (a very good one, I'm using it :), fast because it's a demon and not a command line)
=> http://www.clamav.net/
- OpenAntivirus (I don't know much about this one)
=> http://www.openantivirus.org/

If you mind being fast (and you should) this is the Av which are the best
for mimedefang :

- File:scan
- clamd, sophie, trophie, symantecCSS, fprotd, avp5, openav are daemonized version

You should avoid Command line AV for performance reasons.

> What is file::scan?
A virus scanner

> 
> Perl modules.
> 
> Unix::syslog....no  do I need it?
Hum I do not know for this one, feeling ys you should if
you want to log some stuff

> Anomy::htmlcleaner....no  do I need it?
Anomy is for cleaning HTML, actually it's buggy and may be
dropped in future releases

> File::scan...no   as above, do I need it?
See above :)

> Sorry I know that's a lot of stuff, but any advice will be great
No problems ;-)