MailScanner on RHEL 3.2 AMD64

[Julian Field]

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Ugo Bellavance wrote:

>JJ wrote:
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>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Has anyone installed MailScanner on a Proliant AMD64 server running RedHat
>>EL 3.2 AMD64 version?  If so did you run into any problems with the
>>installation?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Johannes Johannsson
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>
>Hmmm, I think the first question to ask, is... Is there a 64-bit version
>of MailScanner?  I doubt so.
>  
>
As it is written in Perl, this isn't hugely relevant. There are 64-bit 
builds of Perl, but fundamentally the Perl compiler is a 32-bit program. 
Also there are only 32-bit virus scanners.

I have MailScanner running on an AMD64 system, and it doesn't run much 
faster than on a 32-bit Xeon system.

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