Re: Antivirus license

[aCaB <acabng@digitalfuture.it>]

Amavis knows nothing about virus signatures. It only knows how to query 
some av softwares being them daemons or a command line based.


Tomàs Núñez Lirola (by way of Tomàs Núñez Lirola ) ha scritto:
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> I have a doubt respecting amavis...
> I've read there are some antiviruses that run in daemon mode (clamav-daemon,
> sophie) because if you want to check a lot of files every 2 or 3 seconds
> (like a mail server does), it takes a lot of resources to load virus
> definitions every time, so they load definitions once and stay as a daemon.
> But I thought AMaViS implemented this. Am I certain? Does AMaViS load virus
> definitions every time a mail is checked? I mean, is useless a daemon
> antivirus with amavis?
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> El Martes, 10 de Junio de 2003 10:38, Samuele Catusian escribió: