On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 15:43, Matías López Bergero wrote: > Nigel Horne wrote: > |>Yes, maybe the 'o' flag it's not required using the 'f' flag. > |>I'll switch to the 'f' flag only. > | > | > | You haven't really answered my question. Why do you want the 'o' flag? > > Now I think that don't need it anymore :-P > > Wen I wrote the script to start clamav-milter, I set the 'o' flag to > scan the mail send by the users with a shell account. Now I have no > shell in the emails accounts, so, no possible virus could be originated > from the box... right?
Correct. > > |>Question: Using only the -l option clamav-milter will scan the messages > |>coming from Internet and my LAN? The thing is that the server it's in a > |>DMZ, so, the LAN would be the DMZ right? > | > | -l has no effect on Internet traffic only on traffic from your LAN. > > So I can safely use only the 'l' flag instead of 'f' one? Yes. I do not anticipate that not using the 'f' and 'o' flags will help your performance problem much, but they won't do any harm either ;-) Keep the 'l' flag if you have users sending emails from boxes with operating systems that a prone to infection such as Windows. > BR, > Matías. -Nigel _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
