Re: the problem of spam

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:52:02PM -0600, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> > I didn't mention in the meeting, but earlier this month I installed 
> > MailScanner http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/
> > 
> > It's alot like the other options, and it works with the stock sendmail.
> 
> Pretty much everything will work with sendmail's milter interface,
> which is one of the few really good things about sendmail.  (Not good
> enough to outweigh the good things about Postfix for this application
> though.)
> 
> I have this violent knee-jerk reaction against MailScanner...  The FAQ
> leads me to believe that the author doesn't have the slightest clue
> how a daemon should work.
> 
>   http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/faq.shtml#22

Could be a good point. Of course, that FAQ is dated October 2002, so 
perhaps his current answer might be different. Then again maybe not, as he 
still has MailScanner restart periodically and assumes command-line virus 
scanning.

Now, the next time I rebuild the mail server here I expect that I will 
follow your suggestion to move to Postfix & etc. 

We'll see...

Erich
 
> It is terribly interesting to read public statements from the authors
> of these various mail scanning daemons...  The only one that gives me
> right warm fuzzies is amavisd-new, although after working with it I'm
> convinced that amavis-ng is the better program from a long-term
> maintenance point of view.  Unfortunately, the author of amavis-ng
> thinks that isn't the right place to handle spam filtering, and I
> strongly disagree.
> 
> Steve
> 

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