Nabin Limbu said: > Hi, > > What is the difference between using clamd only and clamd + clamav-milter > with > mailserver. What additional benefits do we get while using clamav-milter. > > Regards > Nabin Limbu
The milter is the component that communicates with both the smtp server and the clamav scanner. To handle mail scanning in real time this component has to exist in some form. Milters are closely associated with SendMail and the libmilter library they provide. There are several products that can run in place of the clamav-milter code, so you have choices. Some of those choices include spam content and spammer behavior filters in addition to invoking ClamAv. It is frequently most efficient to test for spam content prior to scanning for viruses - there is no point in virus scanning a file if it has failed a spam content test. That's more than you asked but not bad to know. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
