In article <50117.213.157.4.156.1314117697.squirrel at nimrod.dscd.de>, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: > > In article > > <CAJfU-f7nCz+iamXzg5rQ0VZAELctBCNcNFySYykAapXw5CeG6g at mail.gmail.com>, > > Anne Wilson <cannewilson at 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 -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org