Hi List, I've been working on documenting an amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav installation for postfix on CentOS5 with regards to writing this up for the Wiki (with invaluable help from forum member WhatsHisName - thanks!). I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome. Assuming there are no objections, I'll post a link once I get started :) Regards, Ned
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote:> Hi List, > > I've been working on documenting an amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav > installation for postfix on CentOS5 with regards to writing this up for the > Wiki (with invaluable help from forum member WhatsHisName - thanks!).WhatsHisName has been a great helper in the forums. So, what is his name? :-P> I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone > has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and > proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome. > > Assuming there are no objections, I'll post a link once I get started :)I very much look forward to reading this article. Akemi> Regards, > > Ned
Ned Slider wrote:> I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone > has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and > proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome.I'd be happy to proof-read it, as we/I have been using that combo for several years now. Or if you have any questions - go ahead and ask. Thank you for the work you have put into documentation over the last few weeks/months! Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20080428/17746484/attachment-0001.sig>
Ralph Angenendt wrote:> Ned Slider wrote: >> I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone >> has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and >> proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome. > > I'd be happy to proof-read it, as we/I have been using that combo for > several years now. Or if you have any questions - go ahead and ask. > > Thank you for the work you have put into documentation over the last few > weeks/months! > > Cheers, > > Ralph >Thanks Ralph :) I've finished the main parts that I intended to cover now, just the introduction to write plus a bit more on testing at the end, and apply a bit of spit and polish: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_amavisd Perhaps you (and others) could take a look and give me your impressions. Amavisd-new is all a bit new to me and I'm still feeling my way around my system so your experience with it will be invaluable.
This might be slightly off topic for this list, but do any of you have a feel for how amavisd-new compares to MailScanner? I know amavisd-new is in rpmforge repositories, and MailScanner as far as I know is not in any standard CentOS repositories, so that certainly makes amavisd-new more convenient. However, we have been using MailScanner since late 2006 based on a howto that was published at hughesjr.com. We recently upgraded our server to CentOS 5, and I have been preparing a page for the wiki documenting the installation. I know that in the past postfix developers did not care for MailScanner because of the interface they used, but as I understand that was fixed several years ago. A quick google on comparisons turned up a lot of old information that probably isn't relevant now, but I did find a couple of opinions that might be worthwhile: 1. amavisd-new may occasionally lose a message, while MailScanner (from my own experience) never allows a mail to be deleted from the incoming queue until it is in the delivery queue. 2. amavisd-new processes can take a lot of memory. Does anybody on this list have better information based on what they have seen or read? Thanks. Michael Ned Slider wrote:> Hi List, > > I've been working on documenting an amavisd-new, spamassassin and > clamav installation for postfix on CentOS5 with regards to writing > this up for the Wiki (with invaluable help from forum member > WhatsHisName - thanks!). > > I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if > anyone has any experience with this combo and would like to offer > advice, tips and proof-reading once I get going, that would be more > than welcome. > > Assuming there are no objections, I'll post a link once I get started :) > > Regards, > > Ned > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs >-- Michael Crider Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative West Plains MO http://www.hoecoop.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.