[Mimedefang] Re: compare mimedefang to mailscanner

[Scott Silva]

Kees Theunissen spake the following on 1/16/2007 2:49 PM:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, John Rudd wrote:
> 
>> 3) MIMEDefang lets you specify the order of checks. With MailScanner, you
>> HAVE to do SpamAssassin first, and Virus Scanning last. That means you're
>> running the very CPU expensive SpamAssassin checks on viruses. With
>> MIMEDefang you can set the order just by re-arranging code in your
>> mimedefang-filter.
> 
> I'm scanning first for viruses with clamav. After that I use the
> expensive SpamAssassin checks only on non virus mails.
> That's the order you prefere.
> I'm not sure that this is cheaper.
> I estimate roughly that I receive about 100 times more spam than
> viruses. That means that I'm scanning about 100 spam mails (that
> could already have been detected by SpamAssassin, and that still
> have to be checked by SpamAssassin anyway) for viruses just to
> block a single virus. This 100 to 1 ratio is also expensive.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kees.
> 
I agree with you. I have way more spam than viruses. And most of the "viruses"
I see lately are phishing attempts caught by clamav.

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