[Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?

Jerry Yeager jerry at scene-naturally.dyndns.org
Wed Aug 15 18:58:13 EEST 2007


On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:00 AM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:


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> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:58:40 +0200
> From: martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
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> also sprach Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com>  
> [2007.08.14.2028 +0200]:
>>> Well, the whole point of sieve, I believe, is to make it  
>>> something that an
>>> admin would want to let arbitrary users modify on their own  
>>> recognizance,
>>> and the ability to specify arbitrary programs to run would be  
>>> just *asking*
>>> to be hacked.
>>
>> Wouldn't a decent, secure alternative to procmail be sieve+amavisd- 
>> new?
>
> Except it's not really possible to make amavisd-new do per-user spam
> filtering. And it's even more of a performance hog.
>
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It is true that amavis-new does over-ride or otherwise seemingly  
discard some but not all of the individual user configuration options  
from SpamAssassin, but have you considered trying the following?

a) Postfix milter to run ClamAv, eh something like this (for Linux fans)

		http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Postfix_with_clamav-milter

It is a bit dated, so double check the docs over at the Postfix site  
to take advantage of updates to the milter abilities in Postfix.


b) then use the regular Postfix <--> SpamAssassin <--> LDA (with  
sieve) setup (message routing via Postfix master.cf) so that  
individual users can set their own SA rules and vacation stuff.



	Jerry Yeager


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