[Dovecot] Unoffical Survey - What MTA/Spam filtering do you use?

[Charles Marcus]

>> I have presently set up my new server to use Postfix and virtual 
>> mailboxes. I want to add Dovecot to that and then do something 
>> reasonable on top of it, like SpamAssassin.

I highly recommend that anyone who wants a very lightweight, *very* 
effective, brain-dead simple (installation *and* maintenance) anti-spam 
gateway check out ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net/)... it was already 
one of the most effective options available, but there has been a *lot* 
of activity recently, and the improvements are amazing. Combined with 
ClamSMTP (http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/clamsmtp/) - also very 
light-weight, very easy to install, configure and maintain - it has 
reduced the load on my server drastically (through its early HELO 
checks, and the new PB (PenaltyBox) functionality, and is virtually 
maintenance free.

It replaces (for me) SpamAssassin, Postgrey and RBL - and I could most 
likely do away with ClamSMTP as well (haven't had a virus get past ASSP 
yet, in about 4 months, since I installed ASSP).

1.2 is in the late beta/RC stages, and will most likely be released in 
the next week or two. The only negative is, it has been changing so 
rapidly, that the documentatiuon hasn't had a cnahce to catch up.

These recent changes began as unofficial changes by Fritz Borgstedt, who 
was later made an official developer. You can read all about these 
changes in the mail list archives.

As for the other parts, I use Postfix, and am in the process of 
converting from Courier to Dovecot (which is why I'm here)...

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Best regards,

Charles