>I am a current and very satisfied user of Declude Virus. Can anyone
>share their thoughts about the Junk Mail product. Can you run both
>products on the same machine without placing excessive demand
>on the mail server?
Although others will certainly cover the "real life" answer to this
question, I can answer it from a technical standpoint.
As a rule of thumb, if your server can handle the virus scanning, it can
handle the spam scanning, too.
Mail server virus scanning is very CPU intensive, as each E-mail that needs
to be scanned (which is most of them) requires starting a new scanner
process. The virus scanning just takes a lot of CPU cycles (some AV
programs are a bit better than others, but not by much). Spam scanning, on
the other hand, uses very little CPU time. But, it can delay delivery of
E-mail up to about a minute if it takes a long time to get DNS results back
(although mail servers that often send you mail should normally have cached
DNS entries, so the E-mail won't be delayed more than a second or so).
-Scott
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