On Wednesday 02 July 2003 10:59 pm, magic wrote:
> magic wrote:
> > Bret Baptist wrote:
> >>Bret Baptist 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!
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Whatever is settled on, it is my opinion that it needs to run as a
> > daemon. The overhead saved is returned in performance.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > S
>
> Actually I took a second look, and I believe that MailScanner appears to
> be the way to go.
>
> They have rpms, srpm, and spec file for download. Now I haven't built
> rpms before, but that seems to be everything we would need to start a
> mdk build.
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/downloads.shtml
>
> * 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.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> S
In addition to what Chris wrote:
* It can be configured with a MySQL backend. This can control things such
as:
1. Per recipient scanning policies.
2. Per recipient white/black lists.
3. Other things I am forgetting right now. :-)
* It is extremely fast. As a daemon you only have to parse the perl once,
after that it is loaded in memory.
* Just check this out, better worded than I could ever do:
http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#features
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Bret Baptist
Systems and Technical Support Specialist
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