Gerard Seibert wrote:
On Sunday October 22, 2006 at 09:49:38 (PM) Dennis Peterson wrote:
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I would rather not use the '--force-scan' option since I am not
particularly interested in scanning outgoing mail. Perhaps someone has
an idea how to correct this problem.
Because you don't scan outgoing mail I have to scan incoming mail from
you. My usual response when I read this kind of thing is to just go
ahead and blacklist you now rather than later. Please practice safe
messaging.
That makes zero sense. Are you implying that if I were to scan an
outbound message you would eliminate your inbound scan? You do know how
stupid that sounds I assume.
You clearly don't understand the problem. If everyone scanned their
outbound I'd have fewer inbound to scan. I'd still scan them but there
would be far less scanning required. Still sound stupid?
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.
Configure your mta to not scan mail from certain addresses at a
particular IP. It's a good idea to use a separate IP address for mass
mailings so that you don't land your enterprise mailer on a DNSBL. There
are people out there that will opt-in to a list but send your UBE to
SpamCop anyway.
We are presently investigating other mail clients to see if they meet
our requirement.
It might also be noted that presently, at least as far as I can tell,
clamav-milter does not natively support Postfix. I have to use the
'sendmail.cf' for instance. It would be nice if the 'clamav' team
developed an application that worked natively with Postfix.
PostFix recently adopted the Sendmail milter API. It is an incomplete
implementation and there are probably all manner of problems you will
find with it. It is a PostFix problem, not a ClamAV problem - PostFix
does not own the code you are using for Milter support. Last I looked
the API was not published and or was subject to change as required by
Sendmail, so using it in PostFix is probably always going to be risky. A
parallel to this is to write Excel spreadsheet translators - Microsoft
can and has changed the format of the files in the past and this results
in broken translators.
dp
_______________________________________________
http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
