Recommended antivirus scanner for mail server

Hello group,

I'm interested in hearing recommendations for anti-virus scanners for
the RedHat Linux Advanced Server 3 OS and probably using Sendmail as the
server. RAV is what we used to use but since Microsoft bought them...

Price must be based on number of domains rather than number of
mailboxes.

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Benny

(Remove your_rose_colored_glasses to mail me)

Le Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:37:32 -0600, Benny Hill a écrit*:

> Hello group,
>
> I'm interested in hearing recommendations for anti-virus scanners for
> the RedHat Linux Advanced Server 3 OS and probably using Sendmail as the
> server. RAV is what we used to use but since Microsoft bought them...
>
> Price must be based on number of domains rather than number of
> mailboxes.

hi,

TREND ?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:41:39 +0100, JP wrote:

> Le Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:37:32 -0600, Benny Hill a écrit*:
>
>> Hello group,
>>
>> I'm interested in hearing recommendations for anti-virus scanners
>> for
>> the RedHat Linux Advanced Server 3 OS and probably using Sendmail as
>> the server. RAV is what we used to use but since Microsoft bought
>> them...
>>
>> Price must be based on number of domains rather than number of
>> mailboxes.
>
> hi,
>
> TREND ?

If you mean IMSS ... Oh hell no! Especially if you are processing "lots"
of email. It is buggy, a swap/memory hog and very very very poorly ported
by people who know nothing about Unix/Linux. I've been in contact with
them (some of their engineers) for a looooong time over many issues. They
even asked if Linux was hard to learn, since they needed to learn it
"apparently".

Of course, we are talking a quarter million messages/day here. But
something that wants 4X physical RAM as swap, and starting at 2GB RAM
should be a clue.

Cheers,
Bill

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import stadnard_disclaimer

Benny Hill wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> I'm interested in hearing recommendations for anti-virus scanners for
> the RedHat Linux Advanced Server 3 OS and probably using Sendmail as the
> server. RAV is what we used to use but since Microsoft bought them...
>
> Price must be based on number of domains rather than number of
> mailboxes.
>

You may want to have a look at http://www.clamav.net/. It's GPL. I use it with
amavis and courier mta. I did it like this on a Debian machine
(http://sentinel.dk/cookbook/courier-clamav-amavis.txt).

However, plain old amavis is not recommended for high-load servers. It is too
CPU intensive. Consider amavisd-new for high-load servers.

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Frederik Dannemare