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Tom Brown

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Jan 19, 2006, 6:16:09 AM1/19/06
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Hi

I currently run postfix version 2.1.5 and use amavisd + spamassasin +
clamav for the spam and av side.

I'm looking at switching over to mailscanner as it perhaps has a smaller
footprint on the machine that amavisd so i'm wondering what other people
use/think

thanks

Keith Matthews

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Jan 19, 2006, 6:58:40 AM1/19/06
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Be careful.

Mailscanner uses undocumented interfaces to Postfix - interfaces that
can change between one release and the next if it suits Wietse.

Early versions of Mailscanner caused truncation and loss of messages.
Things seem to be better now but you'll need to carefully match Postfix
and Mailscanner versions or message problems may well emerge.

The majority of those on this list will not touch Mailscanner because of
the potential problems.


There has been much discussion over the years - check the archives.

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mouss

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Jan 19, 2006, 7:10:08 AM1/19/06
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Tom Brown a écrit :

This is not recommended, and I doubt you'd gain any significant perf
benefits.

The "footprint" is mostly from spamassassin. So first check that your
spamassassin isn't configured with too many large rulesets.

Paul Matthews

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Jan 19, 2006, 7:10:34 AM1/19/06
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i've used MailScanner with ClamaV and postfix and had no problems with
it at all and with the webmin interfaces into postfix, Mailscanner and
clamav i find it all easy to manage.

to see how i've set it up look on my website

http://www.yourhowto.org

Barry Bourdage

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Jan 19, 2006, 7:11:03 AM1/19/06
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We are currently using MailScanner and Mailwatch, and love it, I do not
know about a smaller footprint, MailScanner is not that small of a
footprint.

Barry

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Subject: postfix and mailscanner

Hi

I currently run postfix version 2.1.5 and use amavisd + spamassasin +
clamav for the spam and av side.

I'm looking at switching over to mailscanner as it perhaps has a smaller
footprint on the machine that amavisd so i'm wondering what other people
use/think

thanks


Tom Brown

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Jan 19, 2006, 8:42:46 AM1/19/06
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> This is not recommended, and I doubt you'd gain any significant perf
> benefits.
>
> The "footprint" is mostly from spamassassin. So first check that your
> spamassassin isn't configured with too many large rulesets.

OK thanks i'll start by poking at soamassassin then

thanks

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