[ale] Debian/Clamav/Exim4 help

[bluejay at speedfactory.net (Jim Seymour)]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:57:57PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> I have been working on the following for a couple of days now without 
> success. I wanted to try a different solution for email scanning on my 
> Debian box. This is Debian Etch running exim4 and I would "like" to set 
> up clam-Av for email scanning. Installed all clam-Av packages and have 
> exim4-heavy installed. I "should" be able to do this without 
> amavisd-new. I have followed the Debian.Readme for clam-Av and made the 
> requested changes to exim and clam-Av files, have tried restarting both 
> exim and clam-Av as well as a reboot of the system. Clamscan will 
> identify test virus files and exim4 is still receiving mail. The 
> problem is that it never scans any mail. Googling for the past couple of 
> days has not turned up anyone with the same problem or a cure. Any and 
> all pointers or ideas appreciated.
> 

Forgot to mention a few things. I did set up clamav to use a socket 
instead of tcp and clamd is up and running.

Thanks,

Jim
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