On Mon, 31 May 2004, Chris Myers wrote: > 1) The default umask for my system is 077, which means that many of the > files created by MIMEDefang are not readable by the virus scanner unless > it's running as root (on my system, I have clamav running as a member of the > defang group). MIMEDefang apparently doesn't override the default netmask, > and doesn't hard-set the permissions on most files it creates.
Clam should run as "defang" if you use it with MIMEDefang. > 2) At least with clamd, MIMEDefang instructs ClamAV to scan > "mdefang-XXXXXX/Work", so ClamAV is only getting a shot at the decoded MIME > parts. See md_copy_orig_msg_to_work_dir_as_mbox_file in the mimedefang-filter man page (recent versions of MIMEDefang only -- introduced in 2.42) -- David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
