On 2004-08-10 14:41:28 -0500, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 12:23 pm, Damian Menscher wrote: > > > Ok, this is turning into a scary beast. But we already have several > > > mailing lists (clamav-users, for example) which can obviously handle a > > > bit of a load. Might be interesting to concoct a specially-formatted > > > message that the milter (or clamd itself) could recognize as a database > > > update, and automatically append to its list of signatures. [...] > Before people get too excited about this idea, though, there are some > issues that need to be fixed. > > Anyone know if it's really feasible for us to obtain a mailserver that > can send out 2k emails to all (100,000?) users in a short (5-10 mins) > time?
How about using NNTP instead of SMTP? Then the clamav server doesn't
have to push out those messages to everybody but only to its neighbours
which will distribute it further.
hp
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