Steven Stern said: > It's a great idea to have clamav-milter do it's own thing. BUT, what is > its > relationship with freshclam? In the clamav-milter -> clamd, you could be > assured that clamd would always be aware of updates installed by > freshclam. > How does this work in the all milter, all the time, world? > -- > Steve
When a message arrives Sendmail sends it to a milter for disposition. Connection info, headers, body are all available to the milter. The milter can call AV agents such as ClamAV or scan the message for spam content. Milters can so much more (visit http://www.milter.org), but that, in fact, is clamav-milter's primary job. It has nothing to do with freshclam. Freshclam's purpose is to download new virus signatures. It has gotten clever recently by using DNS to learn if a new signature release is available, and if it is, it will download it and if so configured, notify clamd to refresh it's database. Except for those rare times when the various database servers are out of sync freshclam has worked perfectly. I run it from cron to provide a random query time as my little part of trying not to pile on to the servers. It can also be run as a daemon and will hammer the servers along with all the rest of the non-randomized systems if you so choose. Please - if you use it, randomize it. dp .. the weather in Kaunakaka`i is perfect today, again. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
