Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:35 -0600, Mike Kercher wrote:
I think you'd be more than pleased with MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) I run it on MANY mail servers and don't know how I lived without it!
Mike
I have a guide to install a PostFix mailserver (with MailScanner, ClamAV, SquirrelMail, and SpamAssassin) here:
http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/9/30/Guides
But amavisd-new is available as a package via yum from Dag's repository ... so I might be easier to install:
I tried to use the amavisd-new from Dag's site. I ended up removing it. I couldn't verify whether or not it was actually using SpamAssassin. The log file said that amavis was finding SA, but I wasn't finding any of the SA headers in the email I was passing through the server. I couldn't figure out how to troubleshoot the problem, and was running out of time. Also, I couldn't be sure, but it seemed like it was calling SA cold for each email and eating the resources accordingly.
I ended up using spamd (the Spam Assassin daemon) and calling spamc from a procmail script. Then I installed clamd (the clamav daemon) and clamassassin (a procmail interface for clamdscan) and call that with a procmail script as well. I'm happy with the performance, and I can monitor what clamav and spamassassin are doing, which I like. At this point I'm considering adding another virus scanner for redundancy, but the clamav folks seem to respond to new virii pretty quickly.
My old email server used Mailscanner with SA and f-prot. The only complaint I had with it was that you have to install postfix twice, and sometimes email would get hung up.
My $0.02 US. :)
Ben