This might be slightly off topic for this list, but do any of you have a feel for how amavisd-new compares to MailScanner? I know amavisd-new is in rpmforge repositories, and MailScanner as far as I know is not in any standard CentOS repositories, so that certainly makes amavisd-new more convenient. However, we have been using MailScanner since late 2006 based on a howto that was published at hughesjr.com. We recently upgraded our server to CentOS 5, and I have been preparing a page for the wiki documenting the installation. I know that in the past postfix developers did not care for MailScanner because of the interface they used, but as I understand that was fixed several years ago. A quick google on comparisons turned up a lot of old information that probably isn't relevant now, but I did find a couple of opinions that might be worthwhile: 1. amavisd-new may occasionally lose a message, while MailScanner (from my own experience) never allows a mail to be deleted from the incoming queue until it is in the delivery queue.
2. amavisd-new processes can take a lot of memory.
Does anybody on this list have better information based on what they have seen or read?
Thanks.
Michael

Ned Slider wrote:
Hi List,

I've been working on documenting an amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav installation for postfix on CentOS5 with regards to writing this up for the Wiki (with invaluable help from forum member WhatsHisName - thanks!).

I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome.

Assuming there are no objections, I'll post a link once I get started :)

Regards,

Ned
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