Re: A question about content filtering.

nick wrote:

> The problem is with our AV scanner which occasionally (about once a
> month) decides to lock up. When it locks up, it no longer accepts or
> resends mail to postfix for delivery, and thus brings pretty much all of
>
> our mail queue to a grinding halt. I usually catch the problem after a
> few hours, but in that time a few thousand mails (at least) will have
> queued up.
>
> I'd really like to implement a way for postfix to time out the
> connection, and if possible try another service, but the only way I see
> to do that would be to install a second machine (and possibly third)
> just for content filtering. Postfix would then use transport to send to
> them, and if one went inactive, it could try the next one...


If you could be a bit clearer regarding your network setup, you may get
better replies. In what order are they chained? How do they interact
exactly?


Matt