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Re: Mailscanner vs. amavis vs. other



On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 11:08:35 -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> 
> We've had some experience with amavis over the last few years and while it 
> generally works it has an a tendency to lose the occassional message or just 
> continually requeue messages until their queue time expires and the message 
> bounces.  We're using amavisd-postfix.
> 
> I know there are also other variants of amavis such as amavis-ng that we could 
> try.  Has anyone compared amavis to mailscanner and come to a definite 
> conclusion as to one being better.  I know better is very subjective but I'd 
> still like to hear opinions.
> 
> I'd like to eventually hook spam trapping into the filter (I think amavis-ng 
> does that) as well.

I have never used Mailscanner so I can't compare them.
I use Postfix with Amavisd-new (note "d-new") and I'm very glad.
As a plus, it cooperates with antivirus scanners and with Spamassassin.

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