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Hello,
I would like to remove the Clamav virusscanner software (pagefault.org) because it made sending E-mails very slow.
Does anyone know howto remove all the packages and set Qmail to it's default settings?
Greets, Arno
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I would assume that you reverse the order that you di thigs in in and use rpm -e < PACKAGE - without the extension> to reverse the rpms.
If you followed the steps as per the notes , It should be easy.
I have the same speed issue with my install, However by looking at the /var/log/amavis.log file , I confirmed that the emails are sent to the server, stored as a file and then the file is scanned. After all is ok the mail is sent to qmail or a response back indicating a virus is present is created.
Is that not the purpose of having a virus scanner ??
Everything comes at a cost, I have a Celeron 700 in my server and It causes about a 2 second delay during processing, I can live with that if it means I don't have to continuously fix up workstations.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Gavin
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Arno wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I would like to remove the Clamav virusscanner software
> (pagefault.org) because it made sending E-mails very slow.
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> Does anyone know howto remove all the packages and set Qmail
> to it's default settings?
The overhead of a virus scanner should be weighed against the benefit of scanning email for virii passing through your server... it does run perl scripts per e-mail and possibly archiving programs aswell as the virus scanner itself, and there is a memory overhead to be considered, of course using clamdscan minimises some of this memory overhead.
To disable it run:
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration delprop smtpfront-qmail filter
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update
Then remove the rpms. As I've always suggested, buy the service link product if your after performance, reliability and support.
Cheers
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Damien
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Thanks for the replies! The decision to remove Clamav was caused by a combination of the speed issue and the dissapointing results of the E-mail virus test on: www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/ (It failed almost all tests). If the scanning was right than the speed reduction is the price to pay for security.
Greets, Arno