On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:10 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:

I have just followed Johnny Hughes' excellent walk-through on how to install Postfix, MailScanner with ClamAV and Spamassassin and it seems to be running fine during in house testing, but I want to make sure that it behaves itself when it goes live serving about 250 users; I have read comments elsewhere both for and against the use of Mailscanner with Postfix, and when I mentioned the subject on the Postfix group I was informed I *WILL* have mail dupes and missing mail so can I have some observations from people using this setup with Centos (3.3).

I use this method, and have no problems on CentOS-3.4 and CentOS-4.0 on several installs.

But, there is a new way to setup PostFix that doesn't require 2 instances of it running.

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml

I have not yet done the installation using that method, but I will try to do so soon and if it works correctly, update the howto.

Also, is there a good follow up to JH's article about using that configuration with virtual mailboxes or is it easy to take the setup as outlined and 'convert' it to use them? I'm on a steep learning curve as I pull myself away from the M$ camp!

This does basic virtual mailboxes

http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_mailbox

I would like to do this via a form and to a MYSQL database ... if I have time: http://www.postfix.org/MYSQL_README.html

(but the version of postfix produced by RHEL {and thus CentOS} does not have MySQL support ... so the postfix package would have to be re-done as a contrib package)

I want to do this to my main server ... but I am not sure when I will have time to install and test it.