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

[Paul Bijnens]

Michael Mansour wrote:
> 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.

I think that is what Bart means:  use clamdscan with MailScanner.
I do it.  It works.