Hi Chris, Covington, Chris wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:46:16AM +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> FOREWORD: >> After using MailScanner for about three years, I finally switched to >> amavisd-new because I liked some things in the implementation better. >> One thing I really need is a "decent" DSPAM integration. I do not >> consider the current DSPAM integration in amavisd-new as sufficient as >> it is currently only a second scanner besides SpamAssasin, uses only >> one global user, does not enable easy spam filter retraining by users >> and the end result of the spam check is calculated by some hard coded >> rules.
> In my opinion, amavisd-new does not need DSPAM support. As of 3.4.X or > 3.6.X (I forget which) DSPAM can run in daemon mode as a LMTP > content-filter. I use amavisd-new for banned files and A/V, then I have > amavisd-new reinject the mail to Postfix which reinjects to DSPAM via > LMTP. Problem solved. I suppose it could be cleaner if amavisd-new > could support reinjecting to a LMTP content-filter, but the performance > is fine. >From your argument it follows (IMHO) that amavisd-new should have no spam scanners at all because for SpamAssassin there is spamd which could be easily integrated into your mail system. The same goes for most virus scanners... The point of amavis (imho) is that it allows to exclude recipients from the spam scan or modifying the actions that are taken based on the result from a spam scan AND each recipient. Without the need to adapt it for every single server software and spam/virus scanner. Instead amavisd-new unifies the interface. Why should there be no DSPAM? I think DSPAM support in amavisd-new will help. Not only because for my purposes DSPAM is far better than SpamAssassin but it would help to diversify the used spam scanners which would make it much harder for spammers to work on one mail that will get past all scanners. And after all, no functionality currently present should be removed. Who likes current system with SpamAssassin only should use it at will. SpamAssassin will probably even the default scanner for a couple of years. -- Felix ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
