On 06/04/04 10:14 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > So I though I'd be l33t and scan all my incoming mail for viruses at > point of entry. Second step of being l33t is being lazy, so just > enabled clamav-milter, since all the packages were already installed > on my state-of-the-art bleeding-edge Red Hat 9 system and was ready to > go. Discard a large part of your incoming suspicious filetypes in your MTA itself.
> Initially this worked like a charm -- no more incoming viruses, just > terse notifications of the form ``Found virus, blocked virus''. > Yippee, I thought to myself, this rocks! > > Unfortunately time, with its propensity to remove rose-tints from > pictures, had a different story to tell... > > First of all, clamav-milter doesn't quarantine messages, it just > bounces them back to the sender. Now this has two issues; firstly, Evil. Turn off the bounces. Viruses should be discarded. <snip> > Secondly, clamav-milter is ghastly slow. Sloooooooow. It takes up to > a minute to deliver one message to me, and for me that's completely > unacceptable -- I get ~400 messages a day in my inbox and watching > fetchmail crawl in a Konsole window is too painful to bear. Which is why you filter after queueing and then discard. Or get a faster CPU. Or parallelise your mail downloads in some form. Or just filter at the MX itself. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
