On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:32:16 +0200, Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 06.06.2004 at 08:15:24 +0530, Milind Nanal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am using Qmail with Qmail-scanner. This working file for corporate
> > scenario. But in case of ISP setup. Perl based scanner takes up lot of CPU.
> > Any alternation to use rather than using Qmail-scanner?
> 
> not really, and not yet (as it seems).
> 
> I didn't research alternatives, but are under the impression that there
> are non off the shelf - BUT the problem has hit me, too ;-)
> 
> Well... I thought of the following things that could be done to reduce
> the server load (needs profiling, of course):
> 
> - rewrite qmail-scanner in Python
> 
>  I don't like the config mechanism of qmail-scanner, too, and python
>  scripts can be compiled, thereby not recompiling the whole stuff over
>  and over on startup.
> 
> - rewrite qmail-scanner in some other language

Funny that I have been thinking about this same thing for the past
couple of weeks myself.

One option I found was qscanq
(http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1ypud/software/qscanq/). It is nice and
lightweight, unfortunately it does not fulfill all of my current
requirements. Though it might fulfill others requirements.

-- 
Sean

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