[Mimedefang] FW: Mimedefang and Anti-virus

[Tilman Schmidt]

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Hi,

sorry for the late reply. Been out of the office for most of the last
two weeks.

Am 2010-01-20 23:22 schrieb Cliff Hayes:
> The list rejected my reply too ... so sending directly to you.

I'll try CCing the list again. Perhaps it'll change it's mind. :-)

> don't know what mimedefang expects.  If it's like spamassassin, I know that
> mimedefang does not use the spamassassin daemon, so I don't need to run
> spamd.  If it's the same for clamav, then I need clamav and not the scanner
> daemon.

At least on my servers, MIMEDefang uses the scanner daemon (clamd) via
the socket configured in $ClamdSock. (/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock
by default.)

Actually, perusing the Perl source in /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl I see that
it seems to support both ways. Ie. if the ClamAV daemon is not available
it will call clamscan directly. However I would recommend against it
from a performance point of view.

HTH
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt
Phoenix Software GmbH
Bonn, Germany
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