On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 05:59, magic wrote:

> > > I would like to second the use of amavisd-new.  I use it for our mailserver 
> > > and it is awesome.  We do about 100,000 messages a day, not that high volume, 
> > > but enough.  I have never had a problem with amavisd-new.
> > > 
> > > http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/
> > > 
> > > I have recommended this in the past.  I still recommend it!
I agree here.  It loads the spamassassin perl modules on startup, and
thus doesn't need to fork a spamassassin per mail, as it is already
loaded.


> > >   
> > 
> >    To be honest, I haven't looked at it. What are the pros/cons
> > compared to using Spamassassin & razor as I have it configured. I
> > read where it was written in perl, is that the daemon, the client or
> > both?
It is written in perl and runs as a daemon (listening on either smtp or
lmtp), or a sendmail milter interface)

From the web page:
Best with Postfix, fine with dual-sendmail setup and Exim v4, works with
sendmail/milter, or with any MTA as a SMTP relay. 'Howto' for qmail
available as well.



> Actually I took a second look, and I believe that MailScanner appears
> to be the way to go.
Nope

The way mailscanner interfaces with postfix is a hack (need two copies
of postfix running, and mailscanner moves mail between the two queues)

amavisd-new runs as a postfix content filter.

>       * Support for 15 virus scanners:
>         Sophos, McAfee, Command, Kaspersky, Inoculate, Inoculan,
>         Nod32, F-Secure, F-Prot, Panda, RAV, AntiVir, Clam,
>         Bitdefender and Vscan. 
>       * Direct support for sendmail, Postfix, Exim and ZMailer mail
>         systems. 

From amavisd page:
includes support for 31 av scanners off-the shelf

since clamav is already in contribs, we could set up amavisd-new to use
it by default.

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