Ron White wrote: > As I continue to build my Exim gateway I've can see the question of a > virus/spam quarantine on the horizon and would like to ask Exim expert > their views. > > I'm aware of AMAVIS(new) being a popular choice but it appears to have > two distinct sets of views. There are those that sing its praises, there > are those that scorn it. > > My aim with my Exim gateway is to offer a combination of per-domain and > per-user settings as far as virus and spam scanning is concerned and > given the excellent core features that Exim offers in terms of ACL's and > message processing I can't see how Amavis would be particularly useful. > I can see it has a place with less capable MTA's, but Exim appears very > flexible as it is - but perhaps I'm confused? > > Can I achieve what Amavis(new) does with Exim without it? I'm happy to > write specific helper scripts (Perl or shell) for tasks that will fit - > but would that be waste of time? > > Ideally my 'per user' settings would allow a user to select if they > block(drop at smtp time) || tag(change subject header) || quarantine || > allow messages that either contain a virus or score above their own > personally set spam score threshold. I can easily hold their 'settings' > in a database against their username and make use of the plethora of > Exim features to do most of this. The sticking point seems to be > management of the quarantine ? > > I'm very interested in the views of experience people using Exim in > production and I'm keen not to go the wrong way as I plan for this. > > > >
I personally have no stats to prove it, but 'It seems to me' from the discussions here over quite a few years, that the majority use ClamAV. Same again w/r SpamAssassin as the most commonly used content-scanner. Others have been used, will work, can work well- and have had examples of 'how to' posted here. But not as often. Majority or no, both SA and ClamAV are dead-easy to integrate with Exim, AND both can complete their perusal and report back *during* the smtp session. .... Which helps greatly to reduce (the need for) post-session DSN. HTH,' Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
