jef moskot wrote the following on 6/18/2007 12:19 PM -0800: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Clamscan is a terrible tool to use in real time with email. >> > > I would recommend it for low volume servers with cycles to burn, given > that the other option is a daemon that can potentially fail. Neither is > entirely ideal, but we should take the wide variety of environments into > account. > > Maybe the default recommendation should be clamdscan, but clamscan is not > an unreasonable choice in certain circumstances. > >
I don't know about other solutions, but amavisd-new allows you to use clamd as your primary scanner and define clamscan as a backup scanner, and it will only call clamscan if the clamd socket fails to respond. Bill _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
