Andrew Wafaa wrote:
> If you arelooking at a VM appliance for anti-spam/anti-virus mail gatweay you 
> could and should try ESVA (http://global-domination.org/ESVA17.php).  It is 
> very resiliant and doesn't use much resources.
>   

Funny you should say that, I installed that yesterday to play with, and
so far it does seem quite good. I haven't really worked out how to
configure it yet though.

What I need ultimately is something I can set up on a hosted server to
handle mail for me and my my customers, which changes things quite a
lot; for example, an office based appliance like ESVA is an open relay
(which is OK inside an office but not outside). I need to be able to
tell it which domains it can accept mail for, with everything else being
rejected, and need it to be able to process large volumes of mail
without getting backlogged.

The problem with SpamAssassin as I understand it (and in my experience)
is that it does a lot of stuff with each mail and gets bogged down very
quickly. Dspam's main touted feature is its low overhead and ability to
handle high volumes efficiently (I have no idea how well it lives up to
that, which is one reason I want to try it). Tests I've done with SA
indicate that it can easily take 10+seconds to process one email.

> I have been using it for a while now without any issue, and it is easy to 
> configure. A colleague that does some mail hosting has almost 100 domains 
> with several hundred users going through the one ESVA box without any issue.
>   

Looks like I should learn more about it then. Presumably your colleague
isn't using a virtual machine for this? I need to learn more about how
to configure the box.

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