[PLUG] amavis

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Fri Feb 13 21:42:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:36:43PM -0800, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 21:30, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > Help! There's three different amavis's out there! Debian seems to
> > suggest that only amavis-ng and amavisd-new are "current". With my
> > qmail setup I can do pre-smtp exec chaining and I can do mid-smtp
> > queue filtering (pseudo-milter, if you will, uses a text
> > pipeline). Anybody have any guidance? Thanks
> 
> amavisd-new is my choice.  I dunno about using it with Qmail.  Here's a
> draft of a paper I've written about using it with Postfix; it might give
> you insight into using it with Qmail.
> 
> http://nakedape.cc/products/packages/maildefender/paper


Ah, okay. That helps make the absolutely horrid amavisd-new/qmail
"howto". Looks like they were setting up an "intranet smtp" for
amavisd to proxy to or some similar bizarre thing. I think I'll focus
on amavis-ng, then.

Thanks for the clear and concise description of how amavisd-new works!

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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