yep, you can use it for spamassasin, in fact one version of amavisd is setup to not only remove virus's from mail, its also designed to work with spamassasin to remove spam as well.
Also, one benefit of having your own mail server, particularly if you have your own domain name, is that you can create as many different email address's as you like, completely under your control, instead of having to ask your ISP to set them up for you. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: Larry Theden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 3:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail server vs. Kmail or such? On Tuesday 10 September 2002 13:45, Franki wrote: > kmail requires that you use your ISP's mail server and it will send/receive > all mail from there.. Right. > > the postfix/sendmail/exim/qmail way is to actually set up your own mail > server..(but you can still tell it to relay mail to your ISP for delivery.) ...what is gained by doing this? > I always setup my own mail server, its fun, its easy, and I have postfix > setup to work with amavis and filescan to protect all my windows boxs from > email virus's... Hmm. So one could set up anti-spam software? (I've seen spam assassin mentioned, and vaguely recall others). > its pretty easy to setup postfix and there are a ton of online docs about > it. (postfix.org) > > postfix is far easier and more secure..(and smaller and much faster) then > sendmail. I'll keep that in mind, thanks. Larry
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