[CentOS] Not receiving root mail

[Craig White]

On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>> In article
>> <CAJfU-f7nCz+iamXzg5rQ0VZAELctBCNcNFySYykAapXw5CeG6g at mail.gmail.com>,
>> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I removed sendmail - but it also removed clamav-milter.  When I tried
>>> to re-install clamav-milter it would have pulled sendmail back in so I
>>> aborted.  Advice?
>> 
>> milters are specific to sendmail. clamav-milter is a linkage between
>> ClamAV and sendmail, so you don't need it with postfix. If you want to
>> use ClamAV, you will need to find out how to link it with postfix, but
>> it won't be by using clamav-milter.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Tony
> 
> Sorry Tony, that's not correct. Though the MILTER interface (Send_M_ail
> f_ILTER) originally was an enhancement in Sendmail, meanwhile since quite
> some time Postfix supports milter applications as well.
> 
> http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html
> 
> So of course Postfix users can implement milter based solutions. And in
> contrast to an AMaViS setup a milter based binding of ClamAV is
> lightweight.
----
of course but unless the clamav-milter packager removes the dependency on sendmail, it's out with the bathwater.

Craig