Re: Spam and more spam

On Wed, 03-Mar-2004 at 14:47:53 +0000, Philip Reynolds wrote:

> However, you were talking about scanning at server v.s. scanning at
> client, whereas I was talking about scanning at smtp level v.s.
> server scanning after acceptance.
> 
> Scanning at SMTP level is not practical in most cases.

Why not?  I'm doing virus scanning (ClamAV) and SpamAssassin at SMTP time
on incoming mail for about 20,000 users (about 250 messages/minute).  I
picked up a pair of 1U rackmount servers (each under 1800 Euro last year)
for this, and there's lots of excess capacity (which is the way I like it).

It seems pretty practical to me :-).

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