On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:47:00PM -0500, Steve Feehan said: > Hi. I have installed the Debian clamav-milter package. I've configured > sendmail to use it and everything seems to be working OK. > > clamav-milter does not depend upon clamav-daemon (which contains > clamd). When and why would I want to use clamav-milter in combination > with clamd?
If, for example, the machine you were running the milter on was already heavily loaded, you might want to off load the work of scanning to a remote clamd instance. Also, people have in the past experienced some stability problems with the milter, but they seem resolved now. > For example, I see that freshclam notifies clamd when the signatures > are updated. Does clamav-milter also get these update notifications? No - it polls periodically for updates. > And if I install clamav-daemon, does clamav-milter automatically > detect it's presence and make use? Or do I have to change the > clamav-milter configuration? You will have to add --external. > I see the --external option in the clamav-milter(8) man page, but the > explanation is confusing. I specify --external to tell clamav-milter > to pass off scanning the mail to clamd, but how do I specify the > LocalSocket (the man page says that when --external is used "The > setting in clamd.conf for LocalSocket or TCPSocket is ignored." That appears to be wrong, or at least misleading. clamav-milter looks like it figures out how to talk to clamd by reading the config file, unless --server has been passed, in which case it uses the specified remote clamd instance. > Finally, how would one tell that clamd is being used by clamav-milter, > rather than the scanning being handled directly by clamav-milter? Normally, when clamd is asked to scan a file, you'll see entries in the clamav logfile of the form date /path/to/file result clamav-milter streams the file to clamd, so you'll see entries of the form date stream result. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Nothing so needs reforming as other | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | people's habits. -- Mark Twain, | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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