Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (396 mails)

[Rainer Link <link@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Graham Murray wrote:

> > Well, amavis requires a commercial package (AntiVir), which we're not
> > allowed to re-distribute. As amavis has an dependency on antivir, it's
> > missing on the ftp-version. It's that simple :)
>
> As Amavis can use any of a number of anti-virus (or spam) scanners,
> why does it need to have a dependency on antivir?

Well, then people will install AMaViS via YaST2 ([x] enable virus
scanning, YaST2 mail module) and complain to our support that it won't
work at all as it doesn't stop any virus. Believe me, (most) people simply
do not read any documentation nor do they check any log file. And AntVir/X
is currently the only virus scanner we ship and we simply can not ship all
dozen virus scanners for Linux :)

best regards,
Rainer Link
(SuSE Labs)

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Rainer Link  |           SuSE Linux AG - The Linux Experts
link@xxxxxxx |  Developer of A Mail Virus Scanner (www.amavis.org)
www.suse.de  | Founder OpenAntiVirus Project (www.openantivirus.org)