[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know:

>> When a milter is configured to reject at the SMTP level, it never gets
>> to the second milter in the chain.  So if clamav-milter detects a
>> virus, the CPU intensive content scanning process never sees the
>> message (hence much lower load).
>Your site policies and your data patterns also come into play.  If you
>get lotsa spam and hardly any viruses it may make sense to spam-scan
>first anyway.  We reject viruses but accept spam (tagged so users can
>have a "junk email" folder) so - for us - data patterns don't enter
>into it.

Yes, we're writing a quarantine program and will require spamassassin to
allow the emails through as well.  Good to see that this is a standard
way of doing things.

-- 
Regards...              Todd
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.       --Benjamin Franklin
Linux kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdkenterprise   1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
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