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

[Charles Marcus]

>> Well, I haven't tested it yet, but did check the code, it's written in 
>> Perl, so surely it's not lightweight, 

> Quick, your bias is showing... ;-)

heh... bias? We're not biased in here! ;)

> For example, *all* of the inbound 
> email to the apache.org and perl.[org|com] domains is handled by 
> qpsmtpd, which is an advanced MTA written in Perl.
> 
>     http://smtpd.develooper.com
> 
> The next generation qpsmtpd will be capable of handling tens of 
> thousands of simultaneous inbound connections (currently used only for 
> spamtraps).
> 
> FULL DISCLOSURE: I am one of the developers of qpsmtpd.

Neat - I'll check it out...

>> Btw, I just tested ClamSmtp, and it passed true viruses, but Amavis 
>> did catch them.

> Did you make sure to update the ClamAV definitions?  Did you make sure 
> that you configured ClamAV correctly (e.g. to scan inside archives)?  A 
> quick test done without understanding the tools involved is equivalent 
> to no test at all.

Correct - also, ClamSMTP != ClamAV, though it does use the same definitions.

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Best regards,

Charles