[CentOS] clarifications
mouss
mouss at netoyen.net
Thu Mar 20 09:37:22 UTC 2008
James B. Byrne wrote:
> Reply-To: <47DD3688.2000507 at netoyen.net>
>
> Sam Drinkard wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been trying to get spamassassin and clamav working, but got
>> really confused when I realized there are various incarnations of the
>> software. Originally, I started out with just spamassassin, but
>> learned there is also an SA-milter. Can someone tell me which of the
>> various spam fighting packages i.e., sa, sa-milter, clamav,
>> clamave-milter, and so forth?
>>
>
>
> Welcome to the club. Setting up anti-spam and anti-virus software can be a
> very tedious process. I tried various approaches over a period of months
> before hitting upon our current solution. We now use MailScanner to integrate
> spamassassin and clamav into our sendmail MTA. This seems to be the least
> burdensome from a maintenance point of view and still provides a useful degree
> of configurability .
>
postfix + amavisd-new is not hard to setup:
http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.postfix.html
note that both amavisd-new and mailscanner rely on spamassassin for spam
filtering (so spamassassin must be installed).
> The MailScanner people can also point you to a reasonable fee for service
> organization to assist you in setting things up..
>
> HTH
>
>
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