[CentOS] qmail on CentOS 4.4

Tue Feb 6 14:08:45 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Feizhou wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Feizhou wrote:
>>>
>>>> I will have a look at using Procmail or Postfix as you and Feizhou
>>>> have mentioned as we're rebuilding a couple of these servers
>>>> currently.
>>>
>>> procmail is a resource hog. If you do not have to use it, do not. If 
>>> you need some filtering, maildrop may be a better choice.
>>
>> Sendmail + MimeDefang is probably the most efficient combination but 
>> spamassassin is the real resource hog wherever it runs.
>>
> 
> Neither mimedefang nor spamassassin sort mail to different folders as 
> far as I know or I have missed something?

Sendmail continues to deliver with procmail.  The difference when using 
mimedefang is that you have already rejected viruses and spam with high 
enough scores to reject early in the smtp conversation, and 
spamassassion only needs to run once on messages with multiple 
recipients.  You can add a header with the spamassassin score, then 
filter/sort on that in procmail (or pop/imap agents) so users can have 
different handling of the same message.  The mimedefang operations are 
controlled by a small  snippet of perl so it is easy to customize.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com