Hello, Small price to pay. There's always crontab to forcibly deliver outgoing/incoming mail. :D
Cheers, Ed Ian C. Sison mumbled: > This is a good solution however it suffers from the usual problem of > store and forward systems. The 'thundering herd' effect which > generally happens when the AV/SPAM scanner is finished with its job and > it's time to deliver the mail that passed the test. Depending on the > amount of mail passing through, you may have time when the bandwidth > utilization is almost zero for SMTP traffic, and then shoots up > dramatically when the mail is all sent out. > > It would be better to use an MTA which can throttle connections > through the AV/SPAM filter, and have simple spooling servers at the > entry point so that incoming SMTP is always available and is spooled, > until it is ready to be accepted by the AV scanner and processed. > > If one wants to avoid the thundering herd by simply making the store > and forward regularity scan more frequent, then you might as well > simply run an instance of your scanner per email, as it's the same > effect resource wise. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
