On Sep 14, 2005, at 5:12 PM, jdow wrote:
jdow a écrit :
Am I alone in having a perception that using mimedefang and
amavis-new
is its own punishment?
At the time I started using SA what
I had available was procmail.
Procmail works if your users have access to the right things for
invoking procmail, or if you're using mail software for which procmail
can be used as a local delivery agent, or something along those lines.
That doesn't include every mail server arrangement and software package
out there. Plus, if you're on a non-trivial mail server (you know,
more than a few thousand active users), procmail is just an insane way
to invoke spam assassin.
Further, mimedefang isn't all about invoking Spam Assassin. It really
seems to be more about protection against viruses, bad attachments, and
other exploits. It's ability to also deal with spam assassin seems to
be frosting on the cake, not the cake itself (if I am digesting the
history of mimedefang correctly).
And, last, some of us postmasters would rather not accept these types
of messages in the first place. Then we don't have to worry about
idiot users replying to them, sending bounces back, or if their
vacation implementation will reply to a virus or spam message
(inevitably leaving large numbers of these replies stranded in our mail
queues). Relying upon users, even intelligent ones, to do the sensible
thing is an exercise even less productive than masturbation.
Instead, we would rather reject the message during the SMTP
transaction. Try that with procmail (unless, of course someone writes
a procmail-milter, in which case it's no different than using
mimedefang or amavis).
