MailScanner and mailing lists

Patterson S.R. S.R.Patterson at SOTON.AC.UK
Wed Sep 18 12:12:21 IST 2002


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No, it's one message addressed to lots of recipients, not lots of
messages addressed to one recipient.

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Steven Patterson MSci OCP.  Tel: +44 (0)2380 595810
Electronic Information Systems Support and Development
Information Systems Services, University of Southampton, UK.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric H [mailto:erich at OLYPEN.COM]
> Sent: 18 September 2002 12:04
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MailScanner and mailing lists
>
>
> What happens when a mailing list of maybe a couple of hundred or
even
> thousands of subscribers goes off, either Majordomo or GNU Mailman?
Is
> that going to pound on the the machine running MailScanner?
>
> I imagine that if there were no attachments then the virus scanner
> wouldn't be a consideration, but what about how it calls
SpamAssassin?
> Would every message be scanned individually?
>
> Eric
>

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