Last few questions before I go live...

[Peter Bonivart]

Jason Williams wrote:
> As far as viruses are concerned, anytime MS detects any viruses in email, I
> just wanted to have MS completely delete it. No need in delivering at all.
> I'm stil debating on the following and was hoping for some feedback:

I would recommend that you quarantine all blocked stuff (attachments,
virus, high scoring spam) and use the quarantine cleaning script to
delete it after for example 14 days. That's a whole lot safer.

Look into these options to start with:

Quarantine Infections = yes
Quarantine Whole Message = yes
Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
High Scoring Spam Actions = store

> Currently, i've been sending emails through the MS server, both a
> combination of viruses (eicar) as well as test spam (GTUBE). It is working
> well, as far as I can see. But im looking to try and 'blast' the server
> with quite a few emails at once, to see how the server reacts. Anyone have
> a recommendation for that?

Julian posted his load testing scripts recently.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0404&L=mailscanner&P=R3423&I=-1
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0404&L=mailscanner&P=R3141&I=-1

> Lastly, I wanted to keep track of stats, that will include a variet of
> things. I want virus statistics as well as spam statistics to be included
> as well. Any recommendations on a setup for that?

I can recommend Vispan if you want stats and easy install. On the page
below you have a link to a live site so you can see how it looks before
you install it yourself.

http://www.while.homeunix.net/mailstats/

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/Peter Bonivart

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Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.29.7,
SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.39, ClamAV 0.70 + GMP 4.1.2, Vispan 1.3

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