-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Noel Jones wrote: > At 01:48 PM 4/11/2007, Ilya Vishnyakov wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello Amavis Gurus! I was wondering if it is possible to set >> amavis with the multiple antiviruses (Kaspersky and Clamv or >> Fprot). Are there any negative sides of adding another AV? Did >> anyone try setting 2 or more AVs with postfix, spamassassin and >> amavis? > > Yes, it is quite common to use multiple AV scanners with > amavisd-new. The only drawback is that it increases the amount of > time a message takes to get through your system. > >> Is it possible to do some type of fail back to another AV if one >> fails? > > amavisd-new uses the concept of "primary" scanners and "secondary" > scanners. During normal operation only the primary scanners are > used. If *all* the primary AV scanners fail with an error or are > unavailable, then all secondary scanners will be tried. If all > secondary scanners then fail, mail will be queued for later. > > A common setup is to use a fast daemonized scanner as the primary, > and a slower command line scanner as the secondary in case the > daemon dies. > > see the comments in amavisd.conf. > thank you. this clarified a lot for me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHU6SUZGmaUWxLn8RAmXRAJ9R3ZbdhVeTL00Wk4JVwI/FE57A+ACgw9qX TwgcV0EISpudU26KEmddMl0= =R3/h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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