> What's wrong with sendmail? Well, mostly that I've bought into the postfix fanboy propaganda that postfix is superior for speed, security, ease of use and world peace.
########## On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Lucas Albers wrote: > > Dan MacNeil said: > > > > anomy sanitizer works well with postfix, but as far as I can tell, it > > can't be configured to drop messages instead of defanging them. > > > > I plan to configure sanitizer to add a tag to bad messages and then use > > procmail to quarantine messages with that tag. Is there better way? > > > > Is there something that does what sanitizer, works with postfix and allows > > me to drop messages completely? > > > > Mimedefang seems ideal, but it only works with sendmail. > > What's wrong with sendmail? > I use it with mimedefang, and it works awesome. > I can do spam filtering, greylisting, ptr-helo checking, virus scanning, > extension filtering, mimetype-filtering, zipfile extension blocking,etc. > The correct behavior with mimedefang is to generate a bounce for rejected > spam, and discard for detected virus's. This is all at the 5xx level. > You can also query internal mail servers/ldap servers to determine if an > account exists before accepting mail from that sender or recipient. > So you only accept mail from a sender, if that sender exists on one of > your internal systems. > My external mx is a debian sendmail 8.12.3, mimedefang 2.38 system and it > handles all department mail load fine. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
