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.



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