Jeffrey,

> I don't need MySQL databases or SpamAssassin or any number of other things
> which are obviously extremely useful, but also completely overwhelming at
> a time when I'm just trying to get the new system to do most of what the
> old system did in the most conservative and stable way possible.

Almost all larger feature-components such as SpamAssassin interface,
SQL and LDAP support, SMTP/LMTP client and server, OS fingerprinting,
process control (nanny), BerkeleyDB cache, etc. can be disabled
(or just not enabled). This way they are not even compiled-in
on startup and occupy no virtual memory, and dependency Perl modules
these components use are not needed and are not loaded.

To a large extent the config file settings are still compatible with 
amavisd(-snaphot), although amavis-perl is somewhat different (not being
daemonized). Btw, there is still the ancient helper program named 'amavis'
(amavis.c) in a directory 'helper-progs' in a package, which is compatible
with the old 'amavis' command and its command line options. It connects
through a socket to amavisd (the daemon) and passes a message, envelope
sender and recipients info to the deamon, and receives back a status.
Probably nobody uses it now, but should still work.

With sendmail a more popular interface nowadays is through a milter,
(README.milter), using Petr Rehor's amavis-milter helper:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/amavisd-milter/
or using a dual-sendmail setup (README.sendmail-dual).

  Mark

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