Clamav replacement for FreeBSD+postfix?

[Duane Whitty]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:12:22PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Oliver Brandmueller writes:
> 
> >We're using clamav (clamd, together with exim) in our setup. Our setup 
> >consisting of currently four servers assigned to this task is processing 
> >around one million deliveries per day, around 3.5 million rejects in the 
> 
> :-)
> You get less spam than we do.
> We also get around 4 Million emails per day, but only about 500K are 
> accepted. (last I checked.. may be more volume now)
> 
> 
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> 
> > Also we use it successfully with libthr instead of libpthred 
> >(through libmap.conf).
> 
> What was the procedure for that? Any pointers to docs appreciated.
> I am looking at /etc/libmap.conf, is it just an entry there?
> Wouldn't that be global? So all programs in the machine will use libthr 
> instead of libpthred?
> 

It can be configured so as not to be global
See libmap.conf(5)

I can share my /etc/libmap.conf file if you would like an example.  It is
non-ClamAv related but does illustrate how to configure using different
libraries for different programs.  I believe I basically using the
/etc/libmap.conf as generously provided by the writer of the port for
the linuxpluginwrapper.

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> I suspsect the issue is FreeBSD's thread support, so your suggested thread 
> library  change may help until we find a process based antivirus (if there 
> is one that works well with FreeBSD). 

There has been much discussion about making the libthr the default threading
library.  

--Duane