Re: [Exim] Exiscan and Clam AntiVirus

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Autor: Markus Fischer
Datum:  
To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] Exiscan and Clam AntiVirus
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:25:44PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote :
> 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.


    Yes, I actually have. But wouldn't this disable scanning of mails
    from the mailserver and defeat the purpose?


    - Markus