Hi there,
Most of this seems relevant to the OP - I think the official
documentation may have confused him.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, Al Varnell via clamav-users wrote:
... clamav-milter is a third party ClamAV tool ...
Although I no longer use clamav-milter, this has been needling
something at the back of my brain, off and on, for a while now.
Indeed as Mr. Varnell says, according to
https://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions
under the section "Third Party ClamAV Tools"
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
The software listed in this section is authored by third parties and
not by the ClamAV Team. Compatibility may vary. ...
Sendmail
clamav-milter | libclamav
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
so that does seem to imply that clamav-milter is considered to be one
of the third-party tools.
However, according to
https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Usage/Configuration.html#clamav-milterconf
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
ClamAV includes a mail filtering tool called clamav-milter.
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
and according to
https://docs.clamav.net/appendix/Terminology.html#clamav-components
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
ClamAV-Milter is a daemon that performs email filter scanning through clamd."
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
and
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
Client applications for clamd include clamdtop, clamdscan, clamav-milter,
and clamonacc. The socket interface is documented and there are also a
variety of third-party clients for clamd.
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
and according to
https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing/Community-projects.html#mail-filters
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
The ClamAV Team maintains ClamAV-Milter ...
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
not to mention the fact that clamav-milter is in the downloaded tarball
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ ls -lrt .../clamav-0.104.0-rc | tail -n 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 ged ged 4096 Jul 21 18:19 clamav-milter
drwxr-xr-x 25 ged ged 4096 Jul 23 17:23 build
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
(although in 0.104.x it doesn't necessarily get built) and
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ head clamav-0.104.0-rc/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.c
/*
* Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All
rights reserved.
* Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Sourcefire, Inc.
*
* Author: aCaB <[email protected]>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
It seems a bit schizophrenic. What's the official position?
Incidentally I see at
https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing/Packages.html
that
"As of 0.103.x, a from-source install requires the user create a
config for FreshClam, ClamD, and ClamAV-Milter in order to use each
application. A package install, however, is likely to come
pre-configured. Users may wish to modify the configs as needed."
It was an accident that I found this, and it was a bit of a surprise
since AFAICT it doesn't seem to have been mentioned in NEWS.md, the
ClamAV blog nor any announcement. Have I missed something?
Finally while collecting this information I accidentally visited
https://clamav.net/
which my browser complains is using certificate serial number
7B:9E:58:34:A0:F9:17:76:25:F6:A4:11:97:19:9F:3E
which expired on 23 October 2013.
--
73,
Ged.
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