ClamAV and Sendmail on FC4

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 14:52, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> > I'd recommend using MimeDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org/) as a
> > wrapper.  MimeDefang installs as a sendmail milter and can run
> > clamav and other virus scanners along with spamassassin and other
> > checks so the attachment parsing only has to be done once.  I'm
> > not sure if there are detailed instructions for installing it
> > on FC4 but the mailing list is very helpful.
> 
> It can easily be built as an RPM. Use "rpmbuild -ta" on the latest tarball 
> to build and package it. I'm using it on several FC2 servers.

I've only used it with clamav built from source, and the one
tweak that needs is to make clamd run as user defang and
put its socket where MimeDefang wants it at:
LocalSocket /var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock

The RPM version probably would need the same.

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  Les Mikesell
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