Phil Pennock wrote: > [resend, correct sender this time, text written yesterday] > > While I can't gather stats on which scanners are deployed at Exim > installs, I think it reasonable to assume that *many* installs make use > of ClamAV. > > The developers today sent a reminder to the clamav-announce > mailing-list [†], stating: > > this is a reminder that starting from 15 April 2010 our CVD will contain > a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than > 0.95 - that is to say older than 1 year. > > http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20100407.141109.2a7c287b.en.html > > I'd really rather not face a flood of complaints on exim-users from > April 15th that ClamAV has broken and asking for help debugging it. I > suspect that my hope is forlorn and that even the careful inclusion of > words in this mail, to match search-engines, won't help with people who > post to lists asking for help without doing basic research themselves > first. But hey, I'll pile in the keywords anyway. And if you found > this message by searching, then: "Thank You! You rock!" > > Ways to check the version of ClamAV: > $ clamdscan --version > $ clamscan --version > $ exim -be '${readsocket{inet:127.0.0.1:3310}{VERSION}}' > $ exim -be '${readsocket{/var/run/clamav/clamd}{VERSION}}' > > Regards, > -Phil > > † Yes, that's a hint to subscribe to the announce lists of software you > care about > > Keyword fodder: > Exim; exim broken; anti-virus scanner; AV scanner; exim won't detect > viruses; why is Exim not working with ClamAV any more? Help, Exim > virus-scanning is broken. How do I fix virus-scanning in Exim? What's > happened to my virus-scanning in Exim? Exim broke today. > >
Phil, Thank you for that considerate and useful advisory! Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
