Re: Virus checking options
Damian <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:55:19 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>> clamscan is slow
>
> slow and uses much of RAM, I have disabled it by unsetting
> @av_scanners_backup
>
> in my local config file.
+1
>> clamdscan is the client for clamd and is fast, that would be why he
>> is using it.
>
> at least in debian, amavis contacts clamd directly, not by using
> clamdscan:
>
> ['ClamAV-clamd',
> \&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"],
> qr/\bOK$/m, qr/\bFOUND$/m,
> qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/m ],
>
> in debian, you must add clamav to amavis group, so clamd is able to
> read mails unpacked by amavis.
>
> perhaps redhat-based systems have similar requirement.
>
Fedora 38 ships Amavis 2.13.0 which switched to clamdscan in Amavis
upstream.