Re: [exim] Exim and Clam AV

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Author: Graeme Fowler
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To: Tom Ray [Lists]
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim and Clam AV
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 00:27 -0400, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
> I just installed ClamAV .90 and I'm trying to get it to work with
> Exim...here's what I have in my exim.conf
>
>
> av_scanner=clamd:/usr/local/clamav/sbin/clamd


This is wrong. Use of "clamd" requires the path to the running socket,
or an IP address/TCP port pair. See:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch41.html#SECTscanvirus

In a nutshell: you run the ClamAV daemon and Exim passes a stream to it.

Graeme