Re: [exim] Virus scanning with Sophos Sweep

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Author: Christian Schmidt
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Virus scanning with Sophos Sweep
Hello Andreas,

Andreas Steinmetz, 28.11.2004 (d.m.y):

> Christian Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >I'm just doing some experiments with exim (4.34, including the
> >exiscan-acl patch) on a Debian Sarge System.
> >It seems I can't get Sophos Sweep to work together with exim.
>
> Try sophie, works well.
> http://www.vanja.com/tools/sophie/


OK, I gave it a try, changed the line in my exim.conf to
av_scanner = sophie:/var/run/sophie
and started sophie that I configured to run under the same UID exim4
does:

*test*

I'm going mad! ;-)
Now it - well - works. When I tested it a few hours ago, it did not:
Mails containing the EICAR string were passed through...

Anyway - thanks to all of your contributions!!

Regards,
Christian
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