RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email

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Author: Frank DeChellis
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To: Tom Kistner
CC: exim-users
New-Topics: The saga continues RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
Subject: RE: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
is a yous a saying I can't run ClamAV and Exim on separate servers?

Frank

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Kistner [mailto:tom@duncanthrax.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:10 AM
> To: Frank DeChellis
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Clam and Exim rejecting ALL email
>
>
> Frank DeChellis wrote:
>
> > ClamAV on separate server
>
> There is the problem. You can't do this, since the files being checked
> are not sent over the network, just a pointer to their location on the
> file system (which is on the exim machine).
>
> Even if exiscan/clamav would be able to send the files over the network,
> I doubt you'd get much increase in overall performance due to the big IO
> overhead.
>
> regards,
>
> /tom
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