On 2/21/07, Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Darren et al, > > > IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. > > He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away > when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of > scanning and filtering is probably one of those types of problems. > The bigger question is - how does the BOSS know there was a 30 second delay in incoming email due to virus scanning?
Some emqil configurations also use a multi-queue system, where a second daemon cans the 'clean' incoming mail for delivery, so there is a built-in delay of 10-15 seconds. > Problem is, with the overhead that come content filtering imposes > (think Perl on the backend, etc.) even beefy hardware starts to be > impacted under heavy load. The answer to that solution is to use multiple front-end servers that do filtering and scanning, then posting clean email to a back-end server for delivery to user mailboxes. There are multiple ways to load-balance incoming email to the front-end servers. Lee ================================================ Leland V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net ================================================