Re: [Exim] Exiscan and Clam AntiVirus

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Author: Patrick Boutilier
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exiscan and Clam AntiVirus

Markus Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote :
>
>>Hi Everybody ,
>>
>>    Could you give me advise about exiscan and Clam AntiVirus ?!
>>I red some mailing list about Clam AntiVirus , and I afraid of  Clam because
>>I saw too many unexpected die abput it.

>>
>>    Does any body using exiscan and Clam AntiVirus together and I also
>>want to ask How do you trust it ? or Does it reliable ?!

>
>
>     I'm facing exactly this problem since a few days. Every 4 to six
>     hours clamav suddenly dies away (in mainlog: timeout error) and that
>     was it. I need to manually kill all clamd processes and restart it.
>     I'm not very happy with it.

>
>     Strange however, this exacrly not-touched-since-months setup worked
>     before. I'm using debian testing and updating on a regular basis,
>     however I haven't see clamav or exim updates for a while.

>
>     I'm lost currently. Disabled clamav is too high a security risk
>     however ... I don't know what I shold do :|



Do you have the ScanMail option enabled in clamav.conf ? If so, disable it.




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>     - markus

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