[gtaSAGE-members] MTA's and gateway virus/MIME/SPAM blocking.

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 22:46, Russell P. Sutherland wrote:

> I've found good success using:
> 
> 	qmail
> 	spamassassin
> 	santizer/anomy
> 
> The latter is an antivirus defanger which supports plugins.
> Its free so I use it. :^)

We use Postfix + amavisd at Dreaming (The Dreaming Network). It works
well, but my only complaint is that amavis is, ultimately, Perl, and
Perl is a big memory hog. Before we switched to the daemon version, the
mail server would run out of swap space on a regular basis, just
spawning Perl jobs. (Even with Postfix's child process limits.)

We do have spamassassin installed but leave its use up to the individual
user. I personally use it and have found it to be quite good. Once
again, the downside is that it is Perl; the upside is that, once again,
there is a spamc/spamd (client/server) edition which relieves the memory
bottleneck.

- Julian

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