On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:00:42PM +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote: > 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 the main reasons there is SA support in amavisd-new are because both are written in perl, there are or were many problems with spamc/d, and spamc/d cannot be run as a robust SMTP content-filter which is better for Postfix integration. amavisd-new allows SA to be pre-loaded, works better than spamc/d, and adds SMTP support. IMO if spamc/d were top-notch, and ran as an SMTP or LMTP content-filter, amavisd-new wouldn't need to call SA and wouldn't have supported SA in the first place. DSPAM daemon mode can support having 1 user opt-in and another opt-out, or 1 domain opt-in and another opt-out, so why reinvent the wheel with amavisd-new? I think supporting DSPAM in the name of just one interface would just add an extra interface to cause problems and confusion. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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/
