[clamav-users] mail server and clamav in different machine

[Jari Fredriksson]

On 2015-06-21 12:22, Simon Hobson wrote:
> M.hafez <wdelnour at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> can i install the mail server (win or Linux based ) and the clamav 
>> in different machine, that may allow me to filter more than one mailer 
>> server using the same Clamav machine.
>
> In principle yes, though it very much depends on how you are going to
> pass the email to it.
>
> If you do file based scanning - ie the server saves a file (or files)
> and then calls ClamAV - you will need to arrange shared files and
> ensure the file paths remain consistent for both ends.
> If you run it as a filter and pass the message in via that, then it
> should only be a case of pointing each mail server at the right
> socket.
>
> But why not duplicate the ClamAV installation and distribute the 
> workload ?

Because ClamAV takes so much RAM an resources. One dedicated server to 
run ClamAV processes would be swell, and all the rest of the system just 
could call it when needed.

clamd really is a memory hog.

br. jarif