[Mimedefang] new installation confusion

[Mike Campbell]

I've just finised installing mimedefang on a Fedora linux box and it 
seems to be working but I have a few questions. If someone could be kind 
enough to offer some insight I would appreciate it.

1 - I've also got spamassassin installed and it seems that I don't need 
the spamd process running for this to work. I understand that it must be 
using perl's spamassassin module. Is this correct? Am I losing any 
functionality by doing it this way instead of calling spamc/spamd?

2 - I've installed the clamav antivirus solution. I was initially using 
the procedure message_contain_virus but it appears that this will try to 
run ALL installed antivirus products. In this case both clamav and clamd 
were detected so it would seem that it is calling both of these which is 
kind of redundant. I have now switched to use 
message_contains_virus_clamd. The question is this: which is better to 
use message_contains_virus_clamav or message_contains_virus_clamd, or 
just the default message_contains_virus???

3 - Currently I check for virus and then do an 
action_quarantine_entire_message followe by an action_discard to not 
deliver the email. I would rather forward the virus email to a special 
email account virus at localhost rather than put it into a quarantine 
directory. Is there a way to do this without having MD check the email 
again and thus geting into an infinate loop?

4 - Since I am new to this I am using the default mimedefang-filter. My 
end-users will be using outlook express clients. Is there any other 
recommended checks that I should do in the filter?


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Mike Campbell