Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-22 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 14:14:57 -0800, lechuit pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem has been translated on FTP (creation of FTP access to transfer presentation!) that's what the regular users can be taught to use, and it works. One policy used is to postpone big files to transfer

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Favinsky
, February 21, 2007 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org (E-mail) Subject: Email server and large Emails. I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:39:14AM -0500, stuartv wrote: I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server and it uses fetchmail to get our email off

Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread stuartv
I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server and it uses fetchmail to get our email off of the public server and sends our email out using a smart

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Doug Clements
On 2/21/07, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now to my question. What software works really well for an internal mail server? I would like some spam protection and I NEED Anti-virus, and I need it all to work even when a customer sends an email with a 50M file attachment because they

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello Stuart, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 11:39:14 -0500, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now to my question. What software works really well for an internal mail server? I would like some spam protection and I NEED Anti-virus, and I need it all to work even when a customer sends an email

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Darren Spruell
On 2/21/07, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: spamassassin. Lately, we have been receiving emails with larger and larger attachments which has been causing the clamav to take to long scanning them and thus a time-out and again, no more email until I get it straitened out. So now to my question.

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey Darren et al, IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning and filtering is probably one of those types of

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread stuartv
likely to contain a virus though. stuart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darren Spruell Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:57 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Email server and large Emails. On 2/21/07, stuartv [EMAIL

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 20:42:13 +0100, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you're dead right. In day to day business, I've found that most people have no clue how to transfer files from one place to the other, other than through mail. you probably *could* make them use WebDAV if their

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Darren Spruell
On 2/21/07, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Darren et al, IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning and

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread L. V. Lammert
On 2/21/07, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Darren et al, IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/21 11:39, stuartv wrote: I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server and it uses fetchmail to get our email off of the public server

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 14:26:00 -0600, L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bigger question is - how does the BOSS know there was a 30 second delay in incoming email due to virus scanning? the BOSS probably doesn't know that the delay is owed to the virus scanning, but I've

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread stuartv
of the server cabinet even is. It sure had pretty lights on it, prob why they kept it. stuart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Toni Mueller Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:39 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Email server and large

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread lechuit pierre
Hi, several topics have been discussed. Mail is a company topic, even none IT associates don't mind how it works and just want to send/receive mail. For my part, saleforces (profit center) have been sensitive to large mails when their client messaging system refused their heavy mails (more than

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread smith
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:56:50 -0700, Darren Spruell wrote IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. Consider limiting the size of attachments that go through your email gateway; SMTP isn't an efficient protocol for bulk file transfers, and like you've found out your