Re: mail server recommendations?

From: Scott Lambert (lambert_at_lambertfam.org)
Date: 04/12/04

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    Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:35:16 -0400
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    On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:01:41PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote:
    > "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote:
    > > I have to admit that I'm partial to sendmail simply for the milter
    > > interface that lets me plug in, say, MIMEDefang, clamav, and all sorts
    > > of other nifty stuff.
    >
    > I didn't consider sendmail for this project, mainly because I'd used postfix
    > before and liked it. The postfix interface for plugging in virus scanners
    > and the like strikes me as rather clunky, though - it's just a bunch of SMTP
    > daemons chained together.

    I think I've read somewhere that milters limit the changes you can make
    to the messages in some way. It's probably not a big limit. I like
    the postfix approach because it is somewhat generic and flexible. Why
    invent a new protocol when SMTP will do it for you? You can take a
    postfix compatible content filter and sandwich it between any two MTA
    instances. They don't even have to be on the same machine.

    I'm running postfix with amavisd-new doing both spamassassin and two
    anti-virus programs (f-prot and clamav). 

    -- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org       http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html
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