[Dovecot] Ongoing performance issues with 2.0.x

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Fri Nov 5 14:56:05 EET 2010


* David Ford <david at blue-labs.org>:

> why don't you run clamdscan on delivery?

I do.

> that way you only scan each email once, not repeatedly every night
> until it's deleted.

I'm only scanning directories that haven't been scanned for a long time
(I cannot scan all the boxes in one night). Main purpose is to remove
freshly detected viruses/spam that wasn't in the patterns at delivery
time.

The benefit is somewhat limited; one might argue it doesn't make much
sense.

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