[K12OSN] Maildir imap server
Brian Chivers
brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Mon Jun 6 08:41:36 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 19:59, Shawn Powers wrote:
>
>>On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:38 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>>If you are using sendmail with procmail
>>>doing local delivery (the default) you can do it with
>>>/etc/procmailrc.
>>
>>That brings up another question: I currently virus scan and spam
>>scan via procmail recipes. Is there a better way I should be doing
>>it? (ie, is a milter or some such thing more efficient?)
>
>
> My favorite is using MimeDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org/)
> as a sendmail milter with it using spamassassin and clam av
> to scan at the system level, discarding viruses and rejecting
> only very high spam scores but tagging the spamassassin score
> in the header so individuals can choose their own level to
> filter with procmail or outlook rules.
>
> Running as a milter lets it reject at the SMTP level based
> on the scan results (so you don't have to return a bounce
> message) and will only do one scan for messages that get
> delivered to multiple addresses.
>
You could look at Mailscanner (http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/) we used to use it till
we moved to PureMessage from Sophos. If you have the money this is a brilliant piece of software,
runs on Linux and just works out the box.
Brian Chivers
Portsmouth College
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