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

[Jon Nistor]

Why use spamassasin or any other spam thingy when you can just have a 500
line header/body check file in regex =)  Think of the pain and agony of it
all!

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Adrian Chung wrote:

::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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