[Dovecot] Re: dovecot vs cyrus, uw, etc.

[Andreas Metzler]

Tom Allison <tallison at tacocat.net> wrote:
[...] 
> With regard to procmail/spamassassin support I have the following 
> recommendation, and it can be applied to both cyrus and dovecot (I think).

> You do not mention what SMTP system you are using, I will assume you are 
> sticking with sendmail and changing qpopper to some IMAP server. 
> However, I would suggest you consider postfix in place of sendmail.  And 
> yes, it's very ready for mission critical.

> There is a package called amavisd-new which allows you to set up an 
> anti-virus scanner and spamassassin as an extension of postfix.  This 
> can process email before it's delivered from postfix to where ever 
> (procmail/lmtp/...)
[...]

I am an exim-guy. ;-) But afaik this all is possible with sendmail, too,
amavisd-new connects to sendmail's milter interface. /This/ is no reason
to switch MTAs.
               cu andreas