From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 01:10:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D8416A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from light.sdf.com (light.sdf.com [207.200.153.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F8F43FAF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by light.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A9gjT-0009Y7-2I; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:10:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:10:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Jethro R Binks In-Reply-To: <20031014232435.L64920@defjam.cc.strath.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20031015010253.I3727@light.sdf.com> References: <20031012123823.M25378@littlejack.nl> <200310121213.34769.wes@softweyr.com> <1066164638.6688.5.camel@hawk.gnome.co.uk> <20031014232435.L64920@defjam.cc.strath.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamassasin X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:10:00 -0000 On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Jethro R Binks wrote: ... > Exim/sendmail+MailScanner combinations are used extensively in the UK > academic community to good effect. Those close to Exim's author use > Exim+MailScanner, and advice on one way of integrating Exim+MailScanner > was written by Exim's author. Uhh... perhaps if you replace "MailScanner" with Exiscan, that all might actually be true. Exiscan is way better than MailScanner. Exiscan does not need to muck around with Exim queue files, since it directly integrates into Exim. Probably because the author of Exiscan and Exim actually work together on this. ... > Speaking personally, MS has saved us time and time again from email-bourne > threats over the past couple of years, and allowed us to implement a > fine-grained mail security policy that is customisable on a per-user basis > if necessary. No other AV solution offers even half the features and > configurability that MS does, and MS now scans and protects huge amounts > of mail in many many installations. Our site was protected from > Sobig.whatever before the thing was even released, without needing to wait > for AV definitions to be updated. FUD actually. Exiscan does all of that too. For that matter, so would MIMEdefang. The feature set is hardly state of the art now. In fact, the way mailscanner mucks around with queue files was something that should have been abandoned long ago, since there are better methods available. > Just felt that a little defence of MS was necessary. > > Jethro. > Tom