James B. Byrne wrote: > Reply-To: <47DD3688.2000507 at 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 > >