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.

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