IMAP and MailScanner

[Mike Dunderdale]

We're running Sendmail, Mailscanner and Squirrelmail, UW Imap with Imap
proxy as suggested by the FAQ and don't have any such calls.

I'd suggest if you're not running Cyrus IMAP then you've got the inherent
problem of parsing your mail folders when they're not in single file per
message format - this is discussed on the Squirrelmail FAQ. Also, running
an IMAP proxy lightens the load a little.

Any further questions, contact me off list and I'll try to summarise for
the list.

M.


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Morten Norby Larsen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we have a small mail server (<10 users) with RedHat 7.3, UW-IMAP, sendmail,
> etc. Plus Squirrelmail 1.4.1.
>
> The MailScanner is the standard installation (RPMs, I think) with
> SpamAssassin and ClamAV.
>
> The problem is that from a superficial analysis (running top in a terminal)
> that MailScanner gets called every time we access webmail (through
> Squirrelmail), which would also explain why Squirrelmail takes more than a
> minute long to list a mailbox ( >100 messages ).
>
> Does anybody know if such a setup would actually run MailScanner during an
> IMAP request and, if so, how that could be avoided (MailScanner has been
> run when mail is accepted, so no further checks should be needed).
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any info,
>
>
> Morten
>
>
>
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