On 12/3/2012 4:12 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:04:42 -0500
Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com> wrote:
You are not relaxing the filtering, you are tightening it.
It still IMO is a bad idea. Effectively, you are lowering your
security when your box is busier no matter how you look at it.
If your box can't handle load spikes, then when it gets busy you
should just spool mail and scan it later when the load goes back
down. If your box can't handle the *average* load, then it's time
for a bigger box (or more boxes.)
Without this setup, you are always at the "lower security" level. Of
course, everyone would like to have a box that can handle fully scanning
every email that comes in, but for some people that is just not
feasible. If you want to get the maximum out of the hardware that you
have, then I don't see any reason not to use something like this.
In reality, few spams exceed the current default size limits. So you
are not losing much by staying with those limits anyway.
--
Bowie
