Re: [Exim] Exiscan and Clam AntiVirus

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Autore: Patrick Boutilier
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Oggetto: Re: [Exim] Exiscan and Clam AntiVirus

Markus Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:25:44PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote :
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>>Markus Fischer wrote:
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>>>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?


No since exiscan demimes everything before sending to clamav for
scanning. Give it a try.



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>     - Markus

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