M.hafez <wdeln...@yahoo.com> wrote: > can i install the mail server (win or Linux based ) and the clamav in > different machine, that may allow me to filter more than one mailer server > using the same Clamav machine.
In principle yes, though it very much depends on how you are going to pass the email to it. If you do file based scanning - ie the server saves a file (or files) and then calls ClamAV - you will need to arrange shared files and ensure the file paths remain consistent for both ends. If you run it as a filter and pass the message in via that, then it should only be a case of pointing each mail server at the right socket. But why not duplicate the ClamAV installation and distribute the workload ? I built a small "cluster" (Postfix+PostfixAdmin+MySQL+Courier+Amavis+ClamAV) and configured each server to do before-queue scanning of inbound emails. I made so there is one master machine which holds the mail store, and a number of other mail servers that will accept connections, scan the mail, and if accepted put it in the mail store via NFS. This was because of the potential delays introduced by before-acceptance scanning and to spread the load of that scanning across multiple hosts. My experience is that by far the highest load on my mail servers is the scanning. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
