On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 14:51, Dave Goodrich wrote:
> Nigel Horne wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 14:27, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:33:03 +0530, Nabin Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>What are the benefits of using 3rd party software like Mailscanner,
> >>>Mimedefang and
> >>>many others with clamav? Why do people use when it can be done simply with
> >>>clamav-milter and spamassassin.
> >>
> >>Efficiency - it's quicker to pass the mail to a single milter and let
> >>it handle it than to use multiple milters to achieve the same result
> >>(depending, of course, on your choice of milters).
> >
> >
> > That is too much of a generalisation to be true.
>
> We use MailScanner because it offers additional tools, delivery options,
> routing, and filtering above clamav. We also do not have issues with the
> clam daemon that some have had. Julian is exceedingly responsive to his
> community, the level of support and help on the MailScanner is second to
> nothing I have seen in Open Source Software.
>
> I'm *not* saying anything bad about clamav, we first used it as test
> while we searched the budget for commercial AV software and never saw a
> need for more. This list has proven to be exceptional as well.
>
> Clamav is great, MailScanner just makes it even better.
That is not my point. You cannot use a specific example to back up a sweeping
statement like "it's quicker to pass the mail to a single milter". If I write
a milter that does 20 tasks slowly because it's written poorly, it will be
slower,
not quicker as Rob claimed, than running 20 separate milters each of which
is written very well.
Consider a milter which does 20 tasks but includes this code before each of
them,
for(i = 0; i < 100000000000000000000000; i++)
for(j = 0; j < 10000000000000000000; j++)
call_slow_routine();
See the problem now of the generalisation?
> DAve
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