MTA + AV: opinions?

[Andre Costa]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:09:47 +0100
"Randal, Phil" <prandal at HEREFORDSHIRE.GOV.UK> wrote:

> Alex Neuman wrote:
>
> > ClamAV+BitDefender is a good choice.
> > Never had a security problem with sendmail.
>
> Nor have I, yet...
>
> We're processing 10,000 messages daily (around 600MB) on a Dell 2650
> single processor P4 Xeon 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, hardware mirrored SCSI
> disks, running Fedora Core 1, with Bitdefender, ClamAV, McAfee uvscan,
> MailScanner with loads of RBLs at the spamassassin level, and running
> squid for 1001-odd users with a load average hovering around 1 most of
> the time.

Thks for the numbers.

Just for future reference: my choice of words when referring to sendmail
was poor: it is complex to maintain and maybe bloated/overkill for us,
but I wouldn't classify it as specially prone to exploits. Sorry for
that =)

Best,

Andre

--
Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa at tecgraf.puc-rio.br)

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