Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]When clam is down...

2005-01-16 Thread Jason Haar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, so if someone overflows your server with a few thousand extra virus mails, until scanners no longer work, you would rather want the virii pass than ask the sender to retry? Having some kind of alert to the admin would be really great, however Indeed. If you are seri

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]When clam is down...

2005-01-16 Thread Bookworm
Entelin wrote: If clamd is down for whatever reason mail will stop flowing, if memory serves the smtp session would give a "temporary failure" message. Is it possible to configure qmail-scanner to try to use clam / sa but if it doesnt work to just let the mail pass? Having the mail transfer utterly

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]When clam is down...

2005-01-16 Thread Cody Baker
Enterlin, The combination of DNS, SMTP, and *nix provide all of the answers for mail redundancy. The answer to almost all mail failure problems is multiple MX records. The ideal solution we use is to have two or more totally independent servers scanning your mail, and then passing the mess

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]When clam is down...

2005-01-15 Thread hamann . w
Hi, so if someone overflows your server with a few thousand extra virus mails, until scanners no longer work, you would rather want the virii pass than ask the sender to retry? Having some kind of alert to the admin would be really great, however Wolfgang Hamann ---

[Qmail-scanner-general]When clam is down...

2005-01-15 Thread Entelin
If clamd is down for whatever reason mail will stop flowing, if memory serves the smtp session would give a "temporary failure" message. Is it possible to configure qmail-scanner to try to use clam / sa but if it doesnt work to just let the mail pass? Having the mail transfer utterly dependant on s