Re: [Exim] Scanning mail with exim4

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Author: dbroome
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To: Joachim Wieland
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Scanning mail with exim4
Quoting Joachim Wieland <jwieland@???>:

> Now I read about local_scan() and have the following thoughts: Scanning
> e-mail is probably _the_ task that takes most of the CPU of a typical
> scanning mail server. As far as I understood, the function gets an
> e-mail right at the SMTP connection time (after the client send the "."
> and before sending the "250 OK...") and now I have to decide whether to
> accept or decline the mail.


Something that may help to releave this situation is vanja's sophie or trophie
these interfaces to Sophos and TrendMicro are much faster and lower load as
they are a local soket based interface to the AV scanner.

http://www.vanja.com/tools/

David Broome,