[users] Failing in updating to clamav and clamav-db

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Bart,

> On Dec 21, 2007 8:59 PM, Michael Mansour <mic at npgx.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe libclamav.so.2 needs to be a part of perl-Mail-ClamAV now? or the
> > Mail::ClamAV developer needs to be notified to update his perl module to make
> > use of the libclamav.so.3 ?
> 
> Well, it would be the latter, but Mail::ClamAV appears to be
> abandonware.  The most recent version (Feb 2007) is labeled
> "unauthorized release" by CPAN, and the last release by the original
> author was in 2005.
> 
> I suspect what you really want to do is start clamd and have
> MailScanner run clamdscan rather than running clamscan.  This should

Yes you're right, that is another option but I prefer not to do this as clamd
then scans all inbound and outbound files to the server, which is not what I
want. I only want it to scan mail which MailScanner handles.

> achieve the desired effect of not reloading definitions on every 
> scan, and is probably at least part of the reason that Mail::ClamAV 
> has gone dormant. _______________________________________________ 

After I sent the email above, I went to cpan and emailed the author of
Mail::ClamAV and he responded almost immediately with:

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Hi Michael,

I plan on an update after the holidays.

Cheers,

Scott 
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So I think I'll just wait until he makes an update, then wait for an RPMforge
update.

Thanks.

Michael.