[email protected] wrote: >> Discussion lists, certainly. But I do encourage you to consider the >> benefits of >> -announce lists, especially those which, at most, get one mail per week and >> more often get maybe three mails in a year. > > Actually, I do have myself subscribed to a bunch of projects on freshmeat and > sourceforge for typical linux programs (did this way back when I decided to > make my own distro, so I needed a way to check up on practically everything > on a system). I still have those coming my way which keeps me partially in > the loop of whats new, but I guess I never subscribed to ClamAV. > > In my particular case though, it's not an end of the world situation - I have > just my own server to look after these days, and I had actually profiled my > email logs a while back and noticed that of the VERY few emails I received > which had viruses, they were already being caught by Spamassassin, so I > disabled ClamAV - no need to really worry about upgrading it. > > Eli. > >
Eli, IMNSHO, that's bass-ackwards. SA - implemented in an interpreted language, even one that is arguably a very good fit to the task, but making *seriously* complex tests, requires perhaps several orders of magnitude more resources than ClamAV's slender compiled binary performing a more straightforward job. EG - one where the 'heavy lifting' has been done externally in the signature DB periodically refreshed and w/o Exim involvement. Or even much delay. We've always run SA stripped-down to only such tests as cannot be done more 'cheaply' by Exim (or ClamAV) and are having good success a year into the experiment with dropping SA altogether on one of our servers. IOW - once you kick the rDNS fail zombots off the teat, perform a few similar low-load tests, look at an LBL or RBL or two, there just ain't enough 'spam' left to justify SA's need for CPU cycles. YMMV, Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
