On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 05:53:30AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> Anyway, we send out several times a week flyers to our customers. These > mailings range from 750 to 2000 messages per run. To scan 2000 identical > messages is insane, not to mention a total waste of system resources. > Other than going to the expense of setting up a separate mail server, > etc. I am looking for a way to circumvent this annoyance. To answer your original question: You scan outgoing mail for the same reason you scan incoming mail: To see if it has a virus. If you have otherwise restricted the ways your users can send mail (blocked port 25) -- if you even HAVE users -- this will alert you to infections on your network. I am assuming you want to know about infections on your network. As someone else pointed out, how you send your bulk mail will effect the next answer: If it is one message with many names, it is only scanned once. If it is individual messages (not as silly as it sounds, for VERP bounce-processing purposes) then you will need to see how to not have those scanned. IE, clamav-milter can have compiled-in addresses not to scan. If you know that those messages come from one IP only, and that machine won't ever be infected, you can whitelist there. All will depend on what you do. Personally, with linux free and hardware all over the place I would just set up sendmail/postfix/whatever on a separate machine for bulk mail, so bulk mailings can't ever effect regular mail. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
