On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:06:33AM +1000, Res waffled thusly: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Chris wrote: > <snip> > > >>9. use something like MailScanner with spamassassin adn a good > > > >While Mailscanner is very good - you need to know your MTA also. > >(unless things have changed) Mailscanner and Postfix was a no-no. > > It works with Postfix without problems, Weitse detests it and will shy > people away from it (maybe because of his relationship with ther author > of amavisd), but there are many large organisations using it happily > wiki.mailscanner.info has howto, MailScanner even works with Qmail (Slightly OT) Wietse doesn't like MailScanner because it's had a nasty history of accessing queue files directly, which will break if the queue file format changes at any stage (for example when DSNs were introduced etc.). I can certainly understand his PoV (and frustration when cluebies blame postfix for breaking MailScanner when it's really MailScanner that's flawed) --Michael. (I have both amavisd/postfix and MailScanner/exim @ work, so I've dealt with both apps ;-))
