> Well, if you'll be scanning any significant amount of email, you'll definitely want to get clamd up & running. > Although MIMEdefang is able to find and use the stand-alone command-line scanner (clamscan), that > would be much less desirable than having clamd up, allowing MD to talk directly to > the clamd socket. This would save a lot of overhead for each scan.
Clamdscan works fine at the command line, its just that I am struggling to get the clam scan of any kind working via the socket. > Nels wrote in another reply that your version of MD does not have the -G option, so the advice I gave > Friday might not work. You might have to make clamd run as the defang user. To do this, > you'd have to edit your clamd.conf and your freshclam.conf, as well as checking the > permissions of your clamav database directory. What does the -G do, I wonder whether I should upgrade to get the latest and greatest. But initially I want to get a distro version working ... Thanks Matt, jON _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
