From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 19 17:29:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3AA16AA61 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEE813C441 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 11383D7D3; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:04:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 9350C61C8C; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17881.55474.548240.495464@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:04:50 -0500 To: jc@irbs.com In-Reply-To: <20070218184713.GA12199@exuma.irbs.com> References: <20070218184713.GA12199@exuma.irbs.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: Clamav replacement for FreeBSD+postfix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:29:18 -0000 >>>>> "John" == John Capo writes: John> Quoting Francisco Reyes (lists@stringsutils.com): >> Anyone using something other than Clamav in an busy FreeBSD+postfix >> environment for antivirus? >> >> Clamav freezes often. Reading archives, seems this is not so rare >> in FreeBSD. >> >> We even tried better machines, and gave Clamav more memory. That >> helped, but still seeing issues. >> >> This is for an ISP, so experiences on other ISPs or large setups >> (ie over 100,000 emails per day) would be most welcome. John> We scan 300,000 messages on a busy day with 4 4.11 machines. John> ClamAV has been rock solid here for many months. I updated to John> 0.90 yesterday due to the security alert and so far so good. John> We also offer Sophos as an extra cost option due to its cost. John> Sophie and Sophos have never burped once in the 5 years we have John> used that combo. Highly recommended but not cheap. I run spampd on some machines and amavis on others, but both use clamav for virus scanning. I can't say that I've had any problems that I've noticed. Most mailservers are running in the 100 to 500 messages a minute range. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================