On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> In article
>> <CAJfU-f7nCz+iamXzg5rQ0VZAELctBCNcNFySYykAapXw5CeG6g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tony
>
> 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.
----
of course but unless the clamav-milter packager removes the dependency on sendmail, it's out with the bathwater.
Craig
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