RE: poll: filter message when ClamAV is down

Dan,

Go for the upgrade to Post.Office 3.6 because the ClamAV module works nicer than my anti-virus script. It sits in front your mailboxes instead of inside the mailboxes. You can still run my anti-virus script side by side to do additional filtering for unknown viruses or to block certain attachments.

Although clamd crashes from time to time (I haven't been able to track down the cause), it is automatically restarted by a script I wrote which continuously checks the presence of clamd. So although the crashes are annoying, there's no harm done.

I went so far and installed a 10 user Post.Office 3.6 with ClamAV on one of our backup Xserves and modified the MX of our primary domain to that Xserve so that all messages that come in on that domain will get virus checked and then Post.Office re-routes the messages to the final mail server (which is still on FreeBSD). It caught around 4000 viruses in the last 12 hours since I installed it. In the coming days, I will decide whether I should keep this setup and if clamd is stable enough for the mail load were getting.

Joe.

At 08:22 -0600 21/06/2004, Dan Tappin wrote:

I wonder if the spamassassin plug-in does the same thing? I have noticed the odd message flagged as spam but the spam score is less then my set score.

Why would Tenon do this? I am guessing it was not on purpose. If it was it needs to be fixed or some sort of config file for the plug-in's so that the more advances sys-admins can fix this kind of stuff.

To add to my vote I would add that I was planning to upgrade just for the virus scanning but this issue is making me re-think the idea. I just got my new G5 XServe / XServe RAID on Friday and I have bee kicking around the idea of moving to Post-fix which I assume I can configure to not do this.

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