[exim] Error in content scanning doccumentation

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Author: Stuart Gall
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Subject: [exim] Error in content scanning doccumentation
Hello
I Hope this is the right place to post documentation issues

From the 4.6.x pdf

40.1 Scanning for viruses
The malware ACL condition lets you connect virus scanner software to
Exim. It supports a “generic”
interface to scanners called via the shell, and specialized
interfaces for “daemon” type virus scanners,
which are resident in memory and thus are much faster.
You can set the av_ scanner option in first part of the Exim
configuration file to specify which
scanner to use, together with any additional options that are needed.
The basic syntax is as follows:
av_scanner = <scanner-type>:<option1>:<option2>:[...]

this is corrrect but then.......


clamd
This daemon-type scanner is GPL and free. You can get it at http://
www.clamav.net/. Some
older versions of clamd do not seem to unpack MIME containers, so it
used to be recommended
to unpack MIME attachments in the MIME ACL. This no longer believed
to be necessary. One
option is required: either the path and name of a UNIX socket file,
or a hostname or IP number,
and a port, separated by space, as in the second of these examples:
av_scanner = clamd:/opt/clamd/socket
av_scanner = clamd:192.168.2.100 1234

sepparated by a colon
av_scanner = clamd:192.168.2.100:1234



TESTED ON
Exim version 4.62 #2 built 19-Jun-2006 16:04:37
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.27: (December 22, 2004)
Support for: crypteq iconv() Content_Scanning

IF you enter the parameters as indicated in the clamd part of the
docs then exim seems to use a random port