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[Ante Karamatić]

On 01.02.2010 17:52, Michael Zoet wrote:

> You can setup postfix + spamassassin + clamd WITHOUT amavisd. That makes
> the life a lot more easier. In this way you must only configure
> SpamAssassin and ClamAV by hand, but that is not as difficult as using
> Amavis. Amavis is a painful package that no one really needs. (IMHO)

I wouldn't agree. ClamAV can tell you that e-mail contains virus (don't 
forget, clamav can not clean viruses). Spamassassin can tell you that 
email is SPAM, but amavis can do something according to those findings, 
it can also block email before content inspection (clamav, 
spamassassin), it can stack multiple anti virus software, it has 
quarantine (on disk or in database), it can inspect headers and act upon 
bad headers. It can also have per-user variables.

Sure, you could do all that with other tools, but amavis makes it much 
easier :)