"James Dinkel" <[email protected]> wrote:
>The subject pretty much says it. I've been doing a lot of reading and >testing with both and mailscanner seems to be much easier to use. They both >have fairly equal feature-sets all though MailWatcher for mailscanner is >pretty awesome and I see no equivalent for amavisd-new. I also hear >mailscanner has better performance, and after reviewing the architectures of >both I would expect mailscanner to have better performance. Mailscanner's >method of getting the emails from postfix and injecting back in to postfix >makes more sense and takes advantage of a feature in postfix designed to >allow scanning of emails. From what I see on the 'net, mailscanner also >seems to be much more popular (as I would expect). So I was surprised to >see amavisd-new in the official Ubuntu Server documentation. Mailscanner >seems to be the more likely choice to get the nod of approval from the >server team. I'm guessing this has something to do with a problem between >mailscanner and postfix in the past, however, without going in to details, >that problem has been fixed thanks to a feature added to postfix (the above >mentioned feature about scanning of emails). > >Thanks for any consideration. > The problem wasn't "between mailscanner and postfix". The problem was mailscanner using internal postfix interfaces to extract and inject mail. From a software engineering perspective this is insane. The mailscanner developers have characterized this as a "political" problem. Personally, I'm more than slightly skeptical about software developed by people who exhibit such a fundamental lack of understanding of basic software engineering principles. Amavisd-new is also what upstream (postfix) recommends. I'm willing to consider alternatives, but I'd want to have a clear understanding of the architectural implications as well as any other advantages/disadvantages. I have not followed mailscanner development. If you could provide some technical details on what's changed, that would be a good start. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
