Author: Marc Perkel Date: To: John Robinson CC: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?
John Robinson wrote: > On 27/11/2006 23:32, Renaud Allard wrote:
>
>> But I must admit being able to put a failover clamav server directly in
>> exim conf would be great. After all, it's possible to put more than one
>> SQL server.
>>
>
> Or indeed more than one SpamAssassin server. Unfortunately the syntax
> for av_scanner uses colons, and existing configs might break if the
> argument to av_scanner was changed to a list.
>
> Umm, hang on, the docs (spec section 40.1) say that av_scanner is
> expanded each time the malware condition is called, so it could expand
> to different servers, which should help for load-balancing, but probably
> not failover unless you were being clever.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
>
>
