Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 13:59, H du Plooy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is just out of curiosity, but fixing the problem would lessen some
> irritations too.
>
> I have fetchmail --> sendmail --> procmail <spamassassin> (if I
> understand the order of events correctly.
>
> Whenever I download lots of e-mail at a time, I notice my system gets
> slower and less responsive, sometimes so bad that apps like evolution
> and mozilla seem to freeze until the mail is delivered.
> I never noticed the system monitor showning increased cpu activity, and
> top didn't turn up anything either.
>
> Today I realised that it's the hard drive that's going bezerk when I'm
> downloading mail.  Why?

You also want to considder if virus scanning is necessary if
this machine only fetches its own mail (not serving as a 
mail server for windows machines).  Virus scanning for linus
is (at this point in time) largely a waste of time and resources
because there are no known viruses that infect linux and
no virus scanner databases detect these (non-existant)
viruses.  

(Amavis is simply a front end processor for the
actual virus checker.  It rips an email appart, writes the
parts to a directory, scans that directory and then re-builds
the email.  - All very usefull if your machine serves mail
to windows machines, but otherwise a waste of resources).

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John Andersen