Author: Roy Coates Date: To: Joseph Kezar CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Relay Problem
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Joseph Kezar wrote:
> I had RAV for exim and we hated it. Our load went high all the time. If a
> ravupdate failed, it left the engine running but not scanning for anything.
> So we had to turn of the automatic cron'ed ravupdate(we ran it by hand and
> watched for any 'connection failed' messages).
>
> In the long run, we switched to exiscan with ClamAV and SpamAssassin. So
> far this seems to be the best of all our configurations yet. For load sake
> we only scan(for spam and virruses) outbound - to - inbound traffic.
>
Hmm.. interesting. RAV was basically chosen for me, I just got the job of
installing it. The machine does handle quite a lot of mail and the load is
always minimal, tests have shown it to be scanning well too.
Maybe RAV got their act together? So far I can't complain.
