[Mimedefang] Clamav milter or call from MIMEDefang?

John Barton jbarton at technicalworks.net
Thu Sep 23 16:22:57 EDT 2004



Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:
> John Barton wrote:
> 
>>... I dont want to waste time processing with mimedefang if clamav
>>knows it is a virus, but I dont want to have to scan in MD all the time to catch
>>what gets by the clamav milter.
> 
> 
> What you might do to get the most bang for your CPU cycle is:
> 1) Run clamav-milter first - this should catch most known viruses
> 2) Scan in MIMEDefang using some OTHER virus engine

I dont think I am going to save a lot if I implement this, because I 
will still be scanning every message with MIMEDefang. This would almost 
certainly help the server during a flood of new activity, but the ratio 
of virus to legit mail isnt high enough for this to be helpful all the 
time. I will be running File::Scan on the machine through MD, but I 
would not expect it to catch something that clamav missed..
-John

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John Barton
jbarton at technicalworks.net



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