Bug#310633: exim4-daemon-heavy: av_scanner permission error with clamav

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:18 -0600, tom morgan wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.50-4
> Severity: important
> 
> i apologize if this is tied to the wrong package.  it's hard to tell if 
> it is an exim4 bug or a clamav bug.  based on the solution given below, 
> i selected this one.
> 
> after enabling the av_scanner directive in exim4, using clamav, we
> started receiving the following error:
[...]
> the solution is to add the user  clamav  to the group  Debian-exim .  as 
> such, i am suggesting that clamav be added to group Debian-exim as part 
> of the exim4 install/configuration.

This has previously been suggested a number of times against the clamav
package, as bug #250335 and the three others merged with it.

For this reason, /usr/share/doc/clamav-base/README.Debian.gz contains
details of how to integrate Clamav with sendmail, exim4 and Amavis.

IMHO, adding users to groups created by other packages isn't something
unrelated packages should be doing - even less so when one the vast
majority of new sarge and sid systems will be running exim4 but may
never be running clamav (or may have clamav added later, since exim4
will be installed by the installer).

Regards,

Adam