[Kroupware] HOWTO: amavisd-new, spam assassin, sophos

[Jason A. Pattie]

It is more efficient and safer than having the MTA delivering through 
SMTP/LMTP, like amavisd does.  Mailscanner does not want to be an MTA.  
It reads a file, processes it, and only deletes it from the incoming 
queue after it successfully writes it to the outgoing queue.  This way 
it never loses an e-mail.  Since it is not involved in the getting or 
sending of the e-mails, it cannot lose e-mail that way, either.  It 
supports more MTAs than amavisd does.

Setting up MailScanner is easier because you don't have to configure the 
MTA to know about MailScanner.  You don't have to touch any 
configuration files for your MTA to use MailScanner.  MailScanner takes 
care of starting the instances it needs.  Also, you don't have to 
reconfigure your delivery agent.  As long as you don't have your MTA 
starting automatically, MailScanner takes care of properly starting the 
incoming and outgoing MTA instances using command line arguments to 
configure them.

Stephan Buys wrote:

>Yes, we did. The install guide dealt with stopping the queues and making 
>Mailscanner read directly from the spool directories. I didn't like that idea 
>much. If there is a better way of doing, I will definitely be interested.
>
>I dont know Mailscanner at all, so insights are welcome.
>
>
>On Friday 18 July 2003 18:06, Jason A. Pattie wrote:
>  
>
>>Stephan Buys wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>For anyone interested I have written a HOWTO on how to
>>>integrate amavisd-new, spam assassin and sophos specifically into Kolab.
>>>
>>>It handles updates, OpenPKG rc.d, etc.
>>>
>>>Please mail me if you want a copy. It will also be available on
>>>kolab.kroupware.org soon.
>>>      
>>>
>>Have you thought or looked into integrating MailScanner as well?
>>http://mailscanner.info/
>>    
>>


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