Re: Re: Warning: Sophie might ignore subdirectories undercertain circumstances

Stephane Lentz <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:11:46 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.vtools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:00:27PM +0200, L. Jankok wrote:
> Sophos also has it's own daemon which could work with postfix 
> and amavisd-new has a build in support for working with
> libsavi (http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/www/projects/SAVI-Perl/dist/)
> this is, if you want to stick with Sophos..
> 
> 
> On  0, Pete Henshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> :We moved from Sophie to Clamd and have had no issues since - I'd recommend
> :it.
> :
> :
> :
> :Pete
> :
> :-----Original Message-----
> :From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> :Behalf Of David Birnbaum
> :Sent: 22 July 2004 17:15
> :To: [email protected]; Discussion about Virge/Sophie/Trophie/...
> :Subject: Re: [vtools] Re: Warning: Sophie might ignore subdirectories
> :undercertain circumstances
> :
> :
> :We're using it a whole lot....  I wish we had someone here capable of
> :maintaining it.  We'd even be willing to chip in some "support" (cash?
> :CDs?  martinis?)
> :
> :David.
> :
> :-----
> :
> :On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, L. Jankok wrote:
> :
> :> is sophie still worth using now it is not being
> :> mantained anymore ?.
> :>
> :> On  0, Dirk Kraemer <[email protected]> wrote:
> :> :Hi all!
> :> :
> :> :We noticed following problem with sophie:
> :> :
> :> :  OS: SuSE Linux 9.0, 9.1
> :> :  Sophie Version: sophie-3.04rc2
> :> :  Filesystem: ReiserFS
> :> :
> :> :Within above environment, if we do a
> :> : ...............
> :> :Regards
> :> :
> :> :Dirk
> :> :
> :> :_______________________________________________

There is a new project called j-sophosd (written in C 
contrary to SAVI-perl) that has been started lately 
that might interest sophie users : 
 
http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr/j-sophosd

Extract from README: 
<<
FEATURES
********

- Daemon using sophos engine to scan virus : j-sophosd

- Client sends path to file to be scanned, where the file format
  is mailbox format

- automatic database reload once an hour

- manual database reload : command sent on the communications channel

- command line scanner j-sophoscan - used for testing
>>

It's author already contributed a MILTER application called j-chkmail
and is rather responsive. 

Regards, 

SL/ 
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Stephane Lentz 
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