[plug] Preferred mail scanning system?

[Bernd Felsche]

Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> writes:

>Bernd Felsche wrote:

>> Amavis would be top of my charts. The commercial AntiVir version
>> works well as a content filter with postfix. I have it running
>> that way at one "site" (actually a number of servers throughout
>> Australia).

>OK, I'll have to look into that. I see those two amavis variants
>coming up quite a bit, though I was unaware there was a commercial
>variant.

Well; commercial "plugin" is probbaly closer to the mark.

As I understand it, amavis can use a variety of content scanners.

>> The anti-virus and anti-spam scanners all seem to require one
>> instance per message. That's the simple method of implementation and
>> intuitively; the most secure.

>What about SpamAssassin's spamd, and clamav's clamd? My
>understanding is that both of those used the Apache 1.x daemon
>service model, rather than strict one-helper-per-job. I could have
>easily missed something though.

So could I! :-)

Frankly; I'd rather not have a daemon left in a state by a previous
message. 
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