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

[Russell P. Sutherland]

* Julian C. Dunn (jdunn@aquezada.com) [18 Dec 2002 09:44]:

> 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.

I'm about to test about a newer tool:

	BlackHole --
		Spam and Virus Blocking plus general email filtering
		for Qmail, Sendmail, Postfix, Exim or Courier.

	http://the.groovy.org/blackhole.shtml

It's written entirely in C so should have lower overhead
that all the perl based tools.

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