postfix, procmail and SELinux - No Go
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at mn.rr.com
Thu Jun 8 23:12:46 UTC 2006
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 19:38 -0500, Marc Schwartz a écrit :
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
>>> BTW (did I already wrote this?) it seems strange that on a postfix
>>> +procmail+clamav+sa setup you wouldn't be using amavis, especailly since
>>> it's available in FE
>> Nicolas,
>>
>> No, you had not queried me on that previously.
>>
>> When I set this approach up two or three years ago, I was looking for
>> something relatively easy to maintain, that was targeted to a relatively
>> low volume, single user system. I became aware of ClamAssassin via the
>> ClamAV third party apps web page and subsequent Google searches.
>>
>> My readings of amavisd-new suggested that it was targeted more for
>> multi-user mail server configurations, given the more complex processing
>> options and reporting. Kind of along the lines of some of the other
>> mail::scanner classes of applications.
>
> Ok. Since you never actually tried amavisd, and since you've proved
> willing so far to invest some time in your spam config, I think you may
> find it worth your time to try amavis. IMHO you'll find it's no more
> difficult to setup than what you already did with procmail+clamassassin,
> and is a quite a bit more powerful.
>
> At least I did manage to install easily amavis way before it become
> available in fedora, but failed miserably when investigating dcc
> (granted the licensing was not too motivating in this last case)
Nicolas,
Fair enough. I'll take a more involved peek at it.
Thanks,
Marc
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