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

[Jon Bendtsen]

Jason A. Pattie wrote:
> 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.

This sounds much more like how i want it done. Does the default 
MailScanner documentation work for the kolab postfix ?



JonB