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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