[Dovecot] For the record: Postfix+Spamassassin+ClamAV+Dovecot

[Egbert Jan van den Bussche]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org 
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org] 
> Namens James Butler
> Verzonden: vrijdag 17 april 2009 20:58
> Aan: Dovecot Mailing List
> Onderwerp: [Dovecot] For the record: 
> Postfix+Spamassassin+ClamAV+Dovecot
> 
> 
> Postfix 2.5.5
> SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (under Perl 5.10.0)
> ClamAV 0.95.1
> Dovecot 1.2.rc2
> 
> works fine on Fedora 10.
> 
> Installed Dovecot and ClamAV from source and everything else 
> using yum.
> 
> I'm using the ClamAV plugin for Spamassassin:  
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin
> 
> I'm calling Spamassassin with:
> 
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/spamc -f -e 
> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
> 
> Postfix hands off to Spamassassin, which processes ALL mail (not just
> attachments) through the ClamAV plugin before parsing for 
> spam, and then hands the whole mess off to Dovecot for 
> 'deliver' to handle.
> 
> How simple is that?
> 
> Since ClamAV scanns all mail, it might be too 
> processor-intensive for really large mail systems, but it is 
> working great for our 120+ user system with lots of spam 
> coming in. If you're using Procmail or some other 
> preprocessor that can hand off to a pipe, then you could skip 
> the plugin and pipe messages over a certain size (i.e. >1024) 
> to clamd, instead.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> James

Hi!

Apologies for digging an old thread from the bin. I was wondering how this
relates to Amavisd? Should I regard the proposed plugin solution as a 'poor
mans' solution when one does not want to install amavis?

Thanks!
Egbert Jan (NL)