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? I ran into problems with one package > with the system not being able to open a socket, so I just gave up. I > hope I'm not too vague here, but essentially, I just would like to > know what the milter part does, and if that's the way to go, or the > non-milter versions. > I'm subscribed via digest, and if it's not too much trouble, I'd > appreciate a cc direct to me. Many thanks.. depending on your MTA (postfix, sendmail, ...) or your MDA (maildrop, procmail, ...), there are various ways to integrate spamassassin: - a proxy. an example is amavisd-new (it calls SA internally, so you don't need to run spamd) - a milter, if your MTA supports milters (sendmail and postfix do) and you are confortable with this. - a program or script calls "spamc" and you have spamd running - a program calls spamassassin (not recommended, except for testing and debugging) - other