joh...@fastmail.com wrote:
I'm now at the phase of looking into Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam.
Looks like ClamAV and Spamassassin are the main options here.
Both of those projects seem to be pretty alive and kicking too.
So I'm left with how to integrate them into and with Postfix.
I've poked around in all the options listed on the Postfix wiki & the
common option seems to be Amavisd.
Another one on the A/S side is spampd.
But both of those seem to be pretty inactive. Amavisd's not had any
releases or updates afaict since last October, and I was told that the
author isn't really participating in it anymore (I gotta check myself
on that).
Admittedly I have neglected Amavis lately, even though I was about
to do a 2.10.2 release before this Summer holiday - but days were
slipping between my fingers and day-job projects had priority.
Luckily there are no glaring bugs in the last 2.10.1 release and
it is quite stable.
I spent most of my free Perl cycles lately working on SpamAssassin,
helping to get its long-overdue version 3.4.1 out in Spring, and
more recently bringing some of my Amavis international mail support
experience to SpamAssassin - which is taking more effort than
anticipated.
Still the Amavis is my main open-source project and is not dead,
although it may be understandable that as the SpamAssassin library
is the main anti-spam tool of Amavis, the success of Amavis is
coupled with well-being of SpamAssassin.
Spampd seems a lot simpler, but is years old afaict.
... and can be very slow on processing large mail
My question is - if I want to Postfix-integrate A/V & A/S *AND* stick
to projects that have active development and communities like Postfix,
what would you recommend?
I know this isn't strictly a Postfix question, but I'm hoping that all
the Postfix-Gods in here might share an opinion or advice.
Mark
