That's because of some disparaging remarks the creator of Postfix has made concerning MailScanner's method of scanning mail. (A whole month's worth of discussion on the MailScanner list)
As you've said, to each his own! On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 14:59, David Ziggy Lubowa wrote: > suprisingly most ppl on some of these open source mailing lists e.g > postfix/freebsd-isp dont think mailscanner is a good solution ...but > some do, so i guess you use what you are comfortable with. I think > amavisd-new is pretty good too , it has the SpamAssassin feature which > works perfectly. > > > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:18, Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote: > > MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) is a much cleaner solution. It > > doesn't require any modifications to your MTA (you only need to modify > > one/two lines in the MTA's startup script). > > > > It uses SpamAssassin for Spam filtering and any of the following for > > virus scanning (from the conf file): > > sophos from www.sophos.com, or > > sophossavi (also from www.sophos.com, using the SAVI perl module), or > > mcafee from www.mcafee.com, or > > command from www.command.co.uk, or > > kaspersky from www.kaspersky.com, or > > kavdaemonclient from www.kaspersky.com, or > > etrust from http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Product.asp?ID=156, or > > inoculate from www.cai.com/products/inoculateit.htm, or > > inoculan from ftp.ca.com/pub/getbbs/linux.eng/inoctar.LINUX.Z, or > > nod32 from www.nod32.com, or > > f-secure from www.f-secure.com, or > > f-prot from www.f-prot.com, or > > panda from www.pandasoftware.com, or > > rav from www.ravantivirus.com, or > > antivir from www.antivir.de, or > > clamav from clamav.elektrapro.com, or > > trend from www.trendmicro.com > > > > It's very flexible, completely configurable (bayesian filtering, DNS > > based blocking, which users to scan/or not scan, auto white-listing, > > quarantining of infected files, SQL logging, rewrite email subjects for > > infected files/spam, etc...) > > > > Peter > > > > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 18:27, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: > > > http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6261_11-5063820.html > > > > > > Spam: It.s what.s for dinner. And breakfast. And lunch. And every snack in > > > between. Wherever you turn these days, spam is invading inboxes > > > everywhere, quickly making the jump from an annoyance to major business > > > problem. Spam is much more operating system-agnostic than many e-mail > > > viruses, so you can find a host of anti-spam solutions for a variety of > > > products on a variety of platforms................... > > > > > > > > > -- > > > **************** ***************************** > > > Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### > > > KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# > > > House 73 # Data Communication Service #### > > > Plot 80 kanjokya Street > > > P.O. Box 173 Kampala, Uganda > > > Tel: +256 77 972255 > > > +256 71 221141 > > > Fax: +256 31 262122 > > > ************************************************************************* > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > > http://www.infocom.co.ug --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
