[novalug] Spamassasin on a mail gateway

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 05:44:31PM -0400, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:28:20PM -0400, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> >>Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:15:09AM -0400, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> >>>>Chris Gordon wrote:
> >>AMaViS also caches Mail::SpamAssassin Perl module, as well as uses the
> >That's good to know. When we were using it I don't think it did that.
> The version of AMaViS I am using is called amavisd-new and is a complete
> re-write/redesign of an older version. So it's definitely very possible
> that it didn't cache Mail::SpamAssassin before.
> I don't think I was trying to prove that AMaViS is *better* then
> MailScanner. After all I know next to nothing about MailScanner.
> Therefore any such argument on my part would be foolish.
> All I am trying to do is make sure that evertyone is on the same page on
> what AMaViS is and what it offers. That's all.

that's cool.

> >>Moreover, just like Apache, AMaViS allows for a configurable number of
> >>child processes to be forked off at start time which makes it very
> >>scalable.
> >The number of MailScanner children forked is also configurable. It is in
> >use on people's home system's with a single user running on old throw
> >away hardware on the one end and huge clustered server farms handling
> >millions of accounts on the other. Amavis can most likely make similar
> >claims.
> It surely can.
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7323
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7524  (followup to the first
> article)

So, there we go, the original poster has at least 2 excellent solutions
to choose from.

-Eric Rz.

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