Hello, I am using qmail-scanner v1.25 with qmail-1.03 and the v2316 SPAMCONTROL patch on FreeBSD 5.4. I have SpamAssassin 3.04 and clamav 0.87 configured in qmail-scanner-queue.pl. I actually have 2 machines with this configuration set up as smart hosts for an exchange server. These smart hosts are very capable - dual 3.06GHz Xeon servers with 1GB ram apiece.
What is happening is that on large (typically 7-20MB, we have a 20MB attachment size limit) attachments the clam virus scan (I am using clamdscan) is taking so long that the sender times out and resends the mail. The sending server that we have had the most trouble with is a sendmail server with a 3 minute timeout between when they finish sending the data and when they expect us to say 'OK'. This would normally only be a minor annoyance, except that the mails are still being delivered by qmail. This results in repeated delivery of large mails to my users, who tend to get upset when they receive the same thing over and over. In one case already I have had to install a separate instance of qmail-scanner configured without clamav in order to keep this from being a daily headache. I am wondering why we continue delivery after the sender has dropped the connection. It seems like we should not deliver the message, since the connection was dropped before we had time to say we received the message. Is this something that qmail-scanner should be involved in? I am not sure where I should be looking to fix this. For what it's worth, the administrator of the sendmail server mentioned earlier says he is able to configure his scanning solution to ignore messages larger than a particular size. With qmail-scanner and clamav I don't think I am able to do this for anything besides archive files. Am I missing something here? -Will -- Will Saxon Systems Programmer, Network Services University of Florida Department of Housing Phone: (352) 392-2171 x10148 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list Qmail-scanner-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
