Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:35:16 -0400 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server recommendations? Message-ID: <20040412193516.GA31403@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <200404121301.41643.mjohnston@skyweb.ca> References: <20040412173824.GC13343@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <200404121301.41643.mjohnston@skyweb.ca>
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:01:41PM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > > I have to admit that I'm partial to sendmail simply for the milter > > interface that lets me plug in, say, MIMEDefang, clamav, and all sorts > > of other nifty stuff. > > I didn't consider sendmail for this project, mainly because I'd used postfix > before and liked it. The postfix interface for plugging in virus scanners > and the like strikes me as rather clunky, though - it's just a bunch of SMTP > daemons chained together. I think I've read somewhere that milters limit the changes you can make to the messages in some way. It's probably not a big limit. I like the postfix approach because it is somewhat generic and flexible. Why invent a new protocol when SMTP will do it for you? You can take a postfix compatible content filter and sandwich it between any two MTA instances. They don't even have to be on the same machine. I'm running postfix with amavisd-new doing both spamassassin and two anti-virus programs (f-prot and clamav). -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html
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