MTA + AV: opinions?

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

On Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:31 PM Andre Costa wrote:

> Both? Any noticeable impact on performance?

That heavily depends on your machine and what mailload you are expecting. At the moment I am running ClamAV, F-Secure (with all three engines), mcafee and antivir at a customer site without any problem. As soon as BitDefender releases its FreeBSD version I will add it as well. Needless to say I am running SpamAssassin with all sorts of additional rules.

> It's definitely another heavyweight contender, we initially
> considered both (exim still isn't out of the game). I
> remember once trying to configure exim to use procmail, and
> it was much more complicated than I expected, so it left me
> with the impression it was maybe too complex to my needs back
> then. It was sometime ago, so things might have changed in the
> meantime... 

Exim is actually quite simple for 90% of the tasks. Try reading and understanding a complex exim config and then have a look at an equivalent sendmail.cf... Unless you are expecting houndred thousands of mails a day I would definately go for exim. The next best choice would be Postfix for me although there seem to be MailScanner issues sometimes...

Regards,
   JP

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