Hi guys and many thanks for the ideas.
I ran mailscanner, spamassassin (pyzor, dcc and razor) and clamav on our BQ server and tested it fine on our BO test box while I got to grips with things. We only handle about 500 mails a day on our server and I estimate our spam content to be in the 90 to 95% range. Our server only really handles our office email and web sites, with a few sites I host for some friends. On our BQ server mailscanner controlled the mail flow through spamassassin and clamav. This is how I see my options at the moment if I understand what you are recommending to me. So it would appear its better to flow the mail directly into spamassassin first with a milter, then send it to mailscanner for virus scanning and ultimate handling. I take a guess here that using spamassassin miltere'd first from sendmail rather than through mailscanner brings the server overhead down as mailscanner is quite processor dependent. I must admit I don't have a clue as to where to start with configuring my BO server to flow the mail this way yet so will get down to a little research at the weekend. On our BQ server I installed mailscanner from source, clamav from source and spamassassin with YUM. My main concern was the brute force mailscanner used when loading. At some point in time YUM UPDATE always had problems with Perl updates (always caused by mailscanner). I am led to believe that the new version of mailscanner does not brute force things quite so bad and these issues are pretty much now fixed. How do you upgrade mailscanner when a new version is released? Do you just re-build from source to overwrite things on the server? Would the same apply for ClamAV, download new source and make it again? Spamassassin came from YUM and updated as required. The YUM repo I guess would always be a little behind whilst they get things changed over and ready for distribution as a package. Once again thanks for the ideas people. Phil.
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