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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks
>or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during
>the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because
>of this problem.  I would (at the risk of being repetitive, as I have
>argued this before) therefore like to point out the benefits of using a
>manager for clamav such as Amavis (which I have never used) or MailScanner

Ok, so instead of:
 sendmail -> clamav-milter -> clamd
You propose:
 sendmail -> amavis-milter -> clamscan

There's no advantage to amavis in this case, and it's actually worse if
it's using clamscan since it has to load the virus database everytime.

I don't know how to configure amavis to *NOT* be run at SMTP phase.

>(which I do use and highly recommend).  This means that your MTA can 
>cope much better with a large peak of incoming mail and then let the 
>scanning manager take care of the virus scanning (as well as other actions 
>such as dealing with spam, complying with user policies etc) off line.

Sending bogus DSN's is not a good netizen.
- -- 
Regards...              Todd
   A friend of mine was at the military and had to check new recruits for
color-blindness. Only after the 20th color-blind man in a row he realized
for the first time in hist life that it was _him_, being the color-blind.
                                                    --Johannes Schindelin
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