On 10/24/2012 2:24 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Admittedly, I have not used amavisd-new or LMTP; they may be better. But will they allow spamassassin per-user prefs? Performance is a plus; another daemon is not. That saying, I'll run another daemon if I get something out of it. Any benchmarks on this?
Am 24.10.2012 19:21, schrieb Bill Shirley: this went away from the orig post, it went to general design of a email system, i think rob did explain the possible problems to the orginal poster very fine
some people may start with local users as traditional mailsetup depend on this next steps they are going to use lda perhaps trying combined with spamc with local users so there is nothing bad on it, its somehow old school, after all, as said ,there are many broken advices out in www by all setups, and sometimes there are mixed up by local and virtual, so people may fail with permissions of local users , daemons etc
sometimes later if more domains should be hosted pure virtual setups are the better way, and making stuff more simple ( but often people fail first in seeing virtual more easy ),
lmtp is the best choice for it compared starting a deliver process for each mail, its working as a service
So anyone should think about what he needs before starting to setup
i.e amavis is a well supported framework since long time, it has tons of features you might wanna have and as well it can be used with per-user prefs
if you dont like the complex amavis style ( many functions have many config points ), you could simple use a chain of milter i.e spamass-milter ( also with per-user prefs ), clamav-milter
with milter you are able to reject on smtp income stage which is very cool anyway milters also have their pros an contras, read postfix sites about them
i didnt tested dspam looks like it chained between lmtp so perhaps also good choice, and could be combined with milters
i had other setups with chained spampd/clamsmtp amavis on seperate filter hosts etc all worked fine
but as dovecot/postfix development going forward , i redesigned all these depending to have more functions and performance
so i recommand, use your working setups as i.e lifetime of your hardware etc, but if building new mailserver choose modern setup ideas and daemon combinations
Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer
Thank you for a very informative post. I took a quick look at spamass-milter but I can't find any configuration information on how to use spamasssassin's per-user prefs. I thought the only way to support per-user prefs was post queue since you have to know who is getting the email to check their prefs.
I am using clamav-milter. Milters are nice.
I set my mail server up 15+ years ago, so it's time for me to have a
re-think here. At that time there were no milters for postfix (don't
remember a Dovecot either). I've try to steer away from re-injects
since they affect the mail received numbers. Are we saying Dovecot's
LMTP can call spamd? I'm on Dovecot 1.2 at home until I can upgrade.
There is no LMTP in Dovecot 1.x, right?
I have a few mail servers running Dovecot 2.0 and 2.1 and yes, I want them to perform well.
Bill