James B. Byrne wrote:
Reply-To: 47DD3688.2000507@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