In article 50117.213.157.4.156.1314117697.squirrel@nimrod.dscd.de, Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org wrote:
In article CAJfU-f7nCz+iamXzg5rQ0VZAELctBCNcNFySYykAapXw5CeG6g@mail.gmail.com, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
I removed sendmail - but it also removed clamav-milter. When I tried to re-install clamav-milter it would have pulled sendmail back in so I aborted. Advice?
milters are specific to sendmail. clamav-milter is a linkage between ClamAV and sendmail, so you don't need it with postfix. If you want to use ClamAV, you will need to find out how to link it with postfix, but it won't be by using clamav-milter.
Sorry Tony, that's not correct. Though the MILTER interface (Send_M_ail f_ILTER) originally was an enhancement in Sendmail, meanwhile since quite some time Postfix supports milter applications as well.
http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html
So of course Postfix users can implement milter based solutions. And in contrast to an AMaViS setup a milter based binding of ClamAV is lightweight.
OK, thanks, I stand corrected, and educated! Must admit I'm not very familiar with postfix - only ever tried to do some debugging on it for someone else.
Of course, that begs the question of whether clamav-milter would work with postfix. If so, it should depend on (sendmail OR postfix). If not, perhaps it should be called clamav-milter-sendmail instead, with another package for clamav-milter-postfix.
Cheers Tony