Stuart Johnston wrote: > Trey Nolen wrote: >> On 12/8/06, Stuart Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Trey Nolen wrote: >>>> We are currently using qmail-scanner for virus scanning and spam >>>> tagging. We process over 1.5 million messages per day and are >>>> starting to run into performance issues with qmail-scanner. We are >>>> looking at amavisd-new as a replacement, but we have an issue with the >>>> spam implementation. Right now, we are calling spamc which uses a >>>> round-robin approach to call 4 other servers for spam scanning to help >>>> balance the load. The way I understand it, amavisd-new calls the >>>> spamassassin perl directly, so it would all need to be done on the >>>> same machine as amavisd-new is running on. I don't think that will >>>> work with our situation. We really need to be able to call the >>>> spamc/spamd combo so that we can offload the spam processing to other >>>> boxes and just let the amavisd-new box handle the delivery and virus >>>> scanning of the mail. >>> Why not just have multiple amavisd-new servers? >>> >> >> I am not opposed to multiple amavisd-new servers, but I'm not sure how >> that would be implemented with our setup. The messages are all >> delivered to one server, so how do you propose that we distribute the >> email among multiple servers? We cannot just do it on a per-domain >> basis, because some of our larger domains will overwhelm a single >> server doing both spam and virus scanning. Keep in mind that we have >> MANY end users that have their incoming and outgoing server set to >> this main server and it is not feasible to change those settings. > > This is not based on experience and others could probably give you better > answers but... > > In the postfix configuration on your primary server, you would have a line > like: > > content_filter=smtp-amavis:amavis.example.com:10024
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