On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:25, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
On Wed, April 5, 2006 1:08 pm, Rob MacGregor said:
WTF are you doing accepting email's at 200 MB? There are far more
appropriate methods of file transfer than SMTP!
But they all require more complicated and lasting setups than SMTP,
On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:17, Karolis Dautartas wrote:
Agreed, especially since ClamAV is a general virus-scanning tool and
not specifically for email.
while sending emails of that size and scanning them for viruses is
definately not the best idea, being unable to scan large files on
On 4/5/06, Nick Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
We are using Clamav 0.88.1 under amavis on Linux to scan incoming mail.
However we often receive mails containing a number of attachments, and I
have found out that clamav appears to hold the entire email in memory
whilst decoding and
On Wed, April 5, 2006 1:08 pm, Rob MacGregor said:
WTF are you doing accepting email's at 200 MB? There are far more
appropriate methods of file transfer than SMTP!
But they all require more complicated and lasting setups than SMTP, for a
specific set of senders/receivers.
If you want to
Daniel T. Stall wrote:
On Wed, April 5, 2006 1:08 pm, Rob MacGregor said:
WTF are you doing accepting email's at 200 MB? There are far more
appropriate methods of file transfer than SMTP!
If you want to send a large file between two people who are likely to
never send each other a file
At 12:25 PM 4/5/2006, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
If you want to send a large file between two people who
are likely to
never send each other a file again, SMTP is a quick and
easy way to do it.
Just because something is quick and easy doesn't make it a
good idea.
You might refer your users with
On Wed, April 5, 2006 1:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Where exactly the line is drawn is of little importance, but it's better
to have a known limit with known consequences (REJECT) than an unknown
limit with unknown consequences (server crash).
Of course. All I wanted to say was don't
At 10:50 AM 4/5/2006, Noel Jones wrote:
At 12:25 PM 4/5/2006, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
If you want to send a large file between two people who are likely to
never send each other a file again, SMTP is a quick and easy way to do it.
Just because something is quick and easy doesn't make it a
Daniel T. Staal wrote:
On Wed, April 5, 2006 1:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Where exactly the line is drawn is of little importance, but it's
better to have a known limit with known consequences (REJECT) than
an unknown limit with unknown consequences (server crash).
...
Having ClamAV's
At 12:57 PM 4/5/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:50 AM 4/5/2006, Noel Jones wrote:
At 12:25 PM 4/5/2006, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
If you want to send a large file between two people who
are likely to
never send each other a file again, SMTP is a quick and
easy way to do it.
Just because
From the original email, it appears ClamAV requires more available, real,
RAM than the largest file it will handle. This would make me think when
installing: how *much* more RAM will it need? What is the largest size
email I can handle on this machine based on that? I might want to
Agreed, especially since ClamAV is a general virus-scanning tool and not
specifically for email.
while sending emails of that size and scanning them for viruses is
definately not the best idea, being unable to scan large files on your
own HDD is not good. It is common to have 256MB RAM on a
At 11:09 AM 4/5/2006, Noel Jones wrote:
Thank you for your wise and considered comments.
Apparently you missed that I offered an alternate quick and easy
solution that doesn't create problems with the mail plant. No soap
box here, just pointing out that screwdrivers don't make good hammers.
On 4/5/06, Daniel T. Staal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the original email, it appears ClamAV requires more available, real,
RAM than the largest file it will handle.
Not at all - the original documents will have been most likely base64
encoded (maybe uuencode, but I'd be surprised), which
Agreed, especially since ClamAV is a general virus-scanning tool and not
specifically for email.
while sending emails of that size and scanning them for viruses is
definately not the best idea, being unable to scan large files on your
own HDD is not good. It is common to have
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