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List:       cyrus-info
Subject:    OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?
From:       damm () yazzy ! org (Scott M !  Likens)
Date:       2007-11-13 20:18:17
Message-ID: 473A0689.5070309 () yazzy ! org
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Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> 3. Can't handle high load very well, in fact it handles load horribly.
>>     
>
> I have a friend who works at a small shop who reports exactly the same
> issue with Zimbra, s..ll...ooo..wwww...
>
>   

I'm glad to know that I wasn't alone, even though I was positive I was not.
>> 3) ClamAV.  Do note how much email I said we dealt with a minute.  We 
>> didn't get a great deal of email.  Maybe 2000 email a day?  Not overly 
>> much.  However as the ClamAV database would grow, if you restarted 
>> ClamAV or Zimbra eventually it would take too long for ClamAV to start 
>> and would not listen on the port assigned and would make mail fail to 
>> deliver.  (Ouch huh?)
>>     
>
> In defense of CLAMAV I can say that we run it on our SMTP server (not on
> the IMAP or groupware server which seems like a bad idea).  It works
> well and is pretty stable.  If your CLAMAV was causing you this problem
> then Zimbra must have boloxed the setup or you just had a bad version.
>   
>   
It was a bad ClamAV version that they shipped.  I replaced it with a 
more current version (it was .80.7 or some really old version).  Then it 
was working again without it dying on it's own or anything.

Scott
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