[Mimedefang] Connect to clamav/clamd and/or SA on other host

[C.M. Burns]

Michiel Brandenburg schrieb:
> C.M. Burns wrote:
>> is there any possibility to use spamassassin and clamv daemons that 
>> run on another host as mimedefang?
> Yes this is possible.  For spamassassin we are using 
> Mail::SpamAssassin::Client ( remember to use IO::Capture::Stdout 
> capturing around the process function as when something goes wrong it 
> will print to stdout messing up mimedefang's client/server 
> communication ).
>
> For clamav we are scanning localhost only.  Clamav (unlike 
> spamassassin) does not play wel with load balancers. I'm currently 
> looking into a clam-milter implementation so that clamd can be 
> balanced but have not implemented this in our production servers.
>
thanks for the info! meanwhile I implemented the spamd/spamc patch from 
the mimedefang home, and it works like a charm!
at the moment 3 mailservers with mimedefang use a central spamd server 
and so far no problems.

what exactly should be the problem in using a central clamd installation?

regards