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

[Adrian Chung]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:09:56PM -0500, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> 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.

I think I'm leaning towards a similar setup to what you've got.  One
of the things I liked about amavis was that even though it was Perl,
it was at least capable of running as a daemon, which alleviates some
of the pain.  Ditto for spamassassin.

Something else I looked at quickly was MessageWall
(www.messagewall.org), but it is still fairly new.  Have yet to
install it and try it out though.

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