On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:08:43PM -0500, Kevin Sawyer wrote:
> We've recently started scanning all of our incoming/outgoing messages for
> viruses and have found it to be extremely CPU intensive. However, we are
> catching a lot of viruses this way so we've decided to continue the
> practice. We are interested in off-loading the virus scanning overhead to a
> different system.
>
> Our primary MX is currently the final destination for most incoming e-mail
> (it hosts all of the mailboxes). We'd like to build a new primary MX that
> scans all of the incoming e-mail then relays it to the current "mailbox"
> server (POP3/IMAP) via QMQP. Please don't drill me on why I want to use
> QMQP. We have reasons why we don't want SMTP running on the "mailbox"
> server once it is no longer the MX.
>
> So, the question is, how to I configure qmail on the MX to relay the
> outgoing mail via QMQP?
How does your virus scanner work now? Is mail delivered to it via a .qmail
file?
The easiest way to acheive your desired results would be to create
a second instance of qmail that is setup to use qmqpc and have your inbound
scanner use this queue when re-injecting the mail.
How are your users going to submit mail? Do they submit to the MX or to
the POP/IMAP3 server?
Regards.
