[Mimedefang] What services need to be started?

Alan Premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Wed Nov 22 01:10:27 EST 2006


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megaspaz wrote:
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> 
> I'm only really interested in mimedefang for the antivirus integration, so
> setting up mimedefang to process only emails with suspicious attachments
> and letting spamassassin process everything else would be fine, but it
> seems that having all services running is grossly inefficient as
> spamassassin would be processing emails that would already possibly be
> processed by mimedefang.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration in this request and for any insight.
> 
> Vincent Jong
> --If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it
> caught and shot now...

Vincent,

 If you're only interested in using MIMEDefang for anti-virus then you
would still need to have spamd running as you're calling spamc from
somewhere as you were previously and spamc requires spamd to be running.


HOWEVER, using MD for only anti-virus seems like a lot of overkill when
you could probably use a different milter for the anti-virus (like
clamav-milter, etc)

if you're interested in a site-wide anti-spam solution ( calling spamc
from cron? ) then you may want to use MD configured with anti-virus AND
spamassassin calls.  If you know perl, MD is a great tool for taking
control of your mail server filtering and protection.

So, when it's said that spamd isn't required with MD, it's specifically
referring to standard MD install which includes calls into the
SpamAssassin API (Mail::SpamAssassin) which have nothing to do with
spamd at all.

hope this helps.

Alan
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