On Oct 12, 2012, at 19:04, Noel Jones wrote: > On 10/12/2012 11:47 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> On Friday, October 12, 2012 12:38:28 PM David Mehler wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> This might be off topic, but I was wondering I am using Postfix 2.9.x >>> and am wanting to integrate antivirus capabilities. What are the >>> differences between clamsmtp and clamav-milter? I'm wondering which >>> one would be better for an antivirus setup? >> >> In situations where I was only doing anti-virus and not anti-spam, I've used >> clamsmtp for years with no issues. It hasn't had a release in awhile, but >> only because it does what it was designed to do and the author decided not >> to >> try to make it into a swiss army knife. I know in Debian/Ubuntu >> clamav-milter >> doesn't have a lot of users and does not get heavily tested. I don't know >> generally though and have never used it. >> >> In situation where you are doing both A/V and A/S, then I would integrate >> clamav with postfix using amavisd-new. >> >> Scott K >> > > +1 for clamav + amavisd-new (which uses clamdscan internally). You > can also use amavisd-new as a smtpd_proxy_filter with postfix if you > want before-queue scanning. > > If you don't want or need amavisd-new, clamav-milter works well with > postfix; I've used it for a couple years.
We use clamav-milter on our relay servers (which run Debian) without any issues. There was some bug last year, IIRC, where clamd would bug out and needed a restart, but that would be detected by the milter, and it'd switch to passthru. Has since been resolved, it seems. Cya, Jona
