Postfix , Dovecot & the Spam fight

[Leander Schäfer]

Hi Harald

puuhh - thank you for your positive feedback. I'm really relieved ;)
It's been a pleasure to write batch scripts for configurin SpamAssassin 
- and it has also been running like a charm the past 6 years.

Go to hell AmaViS ! Crap

;)

Best regards
Leander



Am 09.02.15 um 22:33 schrieb Reindl Harald:
>
> Am 09.02.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Leander Schäfer:
>> I'm currently busy with a substiution of my current mail server. I'm
>> currently using
>>
>>   * Clam-SMTP and
>>   * SpamAssassin
>>
>> to fight Spam. I wonder if it is worth implementing AmaViS with
>> SpamAssassin backend instead and also using AmaViS to speak to clamd
>> directly. But I more and more wonder wether AmaViS is even worth it?! It
>> currently looks to me as if AmaViS is eating LOTS of ressources and it
>> is very uncomfortable for automated installations if you have to do
>> dynamic batch changes on the AmaViS configs - sed(1) is your friend but
>> this hectic escaping and workarrounds is really not sustainable to
>> maintain.
>>
>> So my question is: Does AmaViS have any advantages compared to the
>> current setup? I don't seem to find lots of qualified discussions for
>> this on the net. The AmaViS related articles I found are freaking old.
>> Would be nice the get your best practice as a change
>
> i don't see advantages but issues if you ask something on the SA list 
> and finally find out that amavis handles configurations different
>
> ressource usage is mostly the same, amavis is only the glue
> the hard work is done anyways by spamassassin and clamav
>
> for both milters exists so you can reject spam instead only flag and 
> deliver or even more worse silently discard it - not a real problem 
> with postscreen and RBL scroing in front, happy running here since 
> 2014/08 with zero load even at peaks of 400 junk attempts per minute
>
> smtpd_milters = unix:/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock, 
> unix:/run/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.socket
>