Stephen Gran wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:12:36PM -0400, Jim Popovitch said: >> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 19:53 +0300, Cevher wrote: >>> Two questions were related. In other words i said (wanted to say) >>> "Shall we use clamav-milter with clamd or without clamd?" >> >> clamav-milter connects to clamd to determine if an email contains a >> virus. > > Correction: > clamav-milter _can_ connect to clamd ... > > It can also do the work itself. The problem with the OP's question is > that the answer is site policy dependant. The only answer is "it's up > to you".
There was (still is?) a bug in recent clamav-milter thread handling that caused it to time out if it did the work itself. I was forced to start it with --external which passes the work to running clamd daemons. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer perl -e"map{y/a-z/l-za-k/;print}shift" "Jjhi pcdiwtg Ptga wprztg," _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html