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Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207



This one time, at band camp, Johann Spies said:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:54:19AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > report to say:
> > 
> > "There is a hard coded path in clamscan that calls internal unpackers
> > for zip and rar before trying the specified external unpackers.  This
> > breaks rar and some zip scanning for no clearly good reason.  I am
> > talking with upstream about it."
> > 
> 
> Would that be the cause of a lot of entries like this in our exim logs:
> 
> 2008-02-27 06:28:19 1JUDru-0007jl-Va spam acl condition: error reading
> from spamd socket: Connection timed out
> ?

It seems unlikely to me that a failure to unpack something in clamav
would lead to a timeout in spamd.  They each do their own mime handling.
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