replace amavisd-new with mailscanner in main and in documentation

[James Dinkel]

The subject pretty much says it.  I've been doing a lot of reading and
testing with both and mailscanner seems to be much easier to use.  They both
have fairly equal feature-sets all though MailWatcher for mailscanner is
pretty awesome and I see no equivalent for amavisd-new.  I also hear
mailscanner has better performance, and after reviewing the architectures of
both I would expect mailscanner to have better performance.  Mailscanner's
method of getting the emails from postfix and injecting back in to postfix
makes more sense and takes advantage of a feature in postfix designed to
allow scanning of emails.  From what I see on the 'net, mailscanner also
seems to be much more popular (as I would expect).  So I was surprised to
see amavisd-new in the official Ubuntu Server documentation.  Mailscanner
seems to be the more likely choice to get the nod of approval from the
server team.  I'm guessing this has something to do with a problem between
mailscanner and postfix in the past, however, without going in to details,
that problem has been fixed thanks to a feature added to postfix (the above
mentioned feature about scanning of emails).

Thanks for any consideration.

Brazen
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