On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 23:59, Ross Golder wrote: > On ศ., 2004-05-07 at 15:22 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > A) With amavisd sitewide run from postfix > > > > (http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.postfix) > > > > I'm wondering if people have any experience with these tools and/or have > > other relevant thoughts. > > > > I'm with jdub - 'kill the s*** before it hits the fan'! > > I use amavisd(-new) with Postfix on my home mailservers and a client. > It's been very good. Whenever I check the mailqueue, it still seems to > be tring to send a shedload of reject notifications to forged addresses > (I can't see a decent way around that), so I also use a selection of > RBLs as well to prevent much of it from even reaching amavisd (and thus > need scanning and potentially generating a bounce message in the queue) It's certainly possible to just drop the messages on the floor, which I think everybody concerned would appreciate. > - in which case the sending server will handle the bounce. Anything that > makes it to amavisd gets scanned with both spamassassin and clamav. A > few virii/spam leak through from time to time, but a fraction in > comparison to the total according to the logs. Hmm, we probably don't want to to run spamassassin system wide ... we can get more flexibility by running that from Mailman. > I'd certainly recommend it. OK, sounds like a plan. Regards, Owen
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