Re: [Nolug] Qmail for Clam and Spamassassin

From: -ray <ray_at_ops.selu.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:45:21 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307281414110.11226-100000@romulus.csd.selu.edu>

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, J. Kent Busbee, Jr. wrote:

> Now, I did notice that you can plug "ClamAV" into "sendmail", but I
> don't think you can plug Spamassassin into "sendmail". Also, I know
> that a few persons on this list have gone with the "qmail", "sendmail",
> "spamassassin" solution and have raved about it.

Sure you can. I've plugged ClamAV and SpamAssassin into our sendmail
system using Mimedefang. Mimedefang is extremely cool in and of itself.

See http://www.mimedefang.org and
http://www.rudolphtire.com/mimedefang-howto/

> So, can someone explain why other than the obvious (it works with the
> about how-to and others on this list may better be able to support me)
> why I should go to qmail. What does qmail do better than sendmail?

Qmail is much easier to configure, but is probably less flexible than
sendmail. I looked at both sendmail and qmail and chose sendmail because
the things like LDAP, spam/virus filtering/scanning seemed to be better
integrated and more heavily used in sendmail than with qmail. Sendmail
has a well definied API called milter that lets 3rd party apps do pretty
much whatever they want anytime during the SMTP transaction. I didn't see
anything like that in qmail or any other free MTA's (someone correct me if
i'm wrong).

Qmail is a great system and is used a lot more than people think. The
track record shows it is more secure than sendmail. And you'll spend MUCH
less time getting it going. But when i saw the cool and crazy stuff you
could do with milter and mimedefang, i had to have it. :)

ray

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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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