Trey Nolen wrote: > On 12/8/06, Stuart Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Trey Nolen wrote: >>> We are currently using qmail-scanner for virus scanning and spam >>> tagging. We process over 1.5 million messages per day and are >>> starting to run into performance issues with qmail-scanner. We are >>> looking at amavisd-new as a replacement, but we have an issue with the >>> spam implementation. Right now, we are calling spamc which uses a >>> round-robin approach to call 4 other servers for spam scanning to help >>> balance the load. The way I understand it, amavisd-new calls the >>> spamassassin perl directly, so it would all need to be done on the >>> same machine as amavisd-new is running on. I don't think that will >>> work with our situation. We really need to be able to call the >>> spamc/spamd combo so that we can offload the spam processing to other >>> boxes and just let the amavisd-new box handle the delivery and virus >>> scanning of the mail. >> Why not just have multiple amavisd-new servers? >> > > > I am not opposed to multiple amavisd-new servers, but I'm not sure how > that would be implemented with our setup. The messages are all > delivered to one server, so how do you propose that we distribute the > email among multiple servers? We cannot just do it on a per-domain > basis, because some of our larger domains will overwhelm a single > server doing both spam and virus scanning. Keep in mind that we have > MANY end users that have their incoming and outgoing server set to > this main server and it is not feasible to change those settings.
This is not based on experience and others could probably give you better answers but... In the postfix configuration on your primary server, you would have a line like: content_filter=smtp-amavis:amavis.example.com:10024 where amavis.example.com would have round-robin dns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
