RE: [exim] clamAV and content scanning

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Author: Angel Marin
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] clamAV and content scanning
Hi,

> On 11 Mar 2005 at 21:09, Fred Viles wrote about
> | On 11 Mar 2005 at 11:30, Jim Pazarena wrote about
> | never used exiscan or clamAV before so it's learning curve.
> | my question however is this:
> | latest clamAV is 0.83
> | exim spec for 4.50 suggests that "Clamd does not seem to
> unpack MIME"
>
> There was just a sub-thread about this, but with a much less obvious


> subject. Clam (at least) *does* now unpack MIME messages, so not
> using demime will work, in general.
>
> But there were comments about Clam's MIME parser being younger and
> potentially more fragile that Exiscan's, so there may still be some
> reason to prefer demime.


We have demime enabled, but in the last +6 months, clamd has found
here 0 viruses outside the eml file. So the mime decoding of clamav is
at least as good as exiscans one.

Regards,

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Angel Marin
http://anmar.eu.org/