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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:43:17 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail and clamav milter setting
Message-ID:  <20050721164317.GA10043@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050721161831.63615.qmail@web52101.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050721161831.63615.qmail@web52101.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 21), Patrick Dung said:
> I have a clamd server(antivirus server), opening TCP connection
> instead of the unix domain socket.
> 
> Next, I have another separate sendmail server. Now I want to do virus
> scanning.
> 
> So, should the clamav-milter daemon be on the sendmail server or the
> antivirus server?
>
> I have this configuration and this works:
> 
> Sendmail SRV <-local domain socket-> clamav-milter <- tcp -> clamd
> server (server A) (server A) (server b)

This is probably slightly faster than the one below, since the
sendmail-milter connection is more chatty (you may get a callback for
each header, etc).
 
> Or this is the correct one:
> Sendmail SRV <-tcp-> clamav-milter <- tcp/domain socket -> clamd server
> (server A) (server b) (server b)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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