[Dovecot] For the record: Postfix+Spamassassin+ClamAV+Dovecot
Egbert Jan van den Bussche
egbert at vandenbussche.nl
Mon Jun 1 11:41:06 EEST 2009
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org]
> Namens James Butler
> Verzonden: vrijdag 17 april 2009 20:58
> Aan: Dovecot Mailing List
> Onderwerp: [Dovecot] For the record:
> Postfix+Spamassassin+ClamAV+Dovecot
>
>
> Postfix 2.5.5
> SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (under Perl 5.10.0)
> ClamAV 0.95.1
> Dovecot 1.2.rc2
>
> works fine on Fedora 10.
>
> Installed Dovecot and ClamAV from source and everything else
> using yum.
>
> I'm using the ClamAV plugin for Spamassassin:
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin
>
> I'm calling Spamassassin with:
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/spamc -f -e
> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>
> Postfix hands off to Spamassassin, which processes ALL mail (not just
> attachments) through the ClamAV plugin before parsing for
> spam, and then hands the whole mess off to Dovecot for
> 'deliver' to handle.
>
> How simple is that?
>
> Since ClamAV scanns all mail, it might be too
> processor-intensive for really large mail systems, but it is
> working great for our 120+ user system with lots of spam
> coming in. If you're using Procmail or some other
> preprocessor that can hand off to a pipe, then you could skip
> the plugin and pipe messages over a certain size (i.e. >1024)
> to clamd, instead.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> James
Hi!
Apologies for digging an old thread from the bin. I was wondering how this
relates to Amavisd? Should I regard the proposed plugin solution as a 'poor
mans' solution when one does not want to install amavis?
Thanks!
Egbert Jan (NL)
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