Mail Server

[Scott Kitterman]

"Scott Kitterman" <scott at kitterman.com> wrote:

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>"Mat" <mat at olitec.ca> wrote:
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>>I deployed a mail server back in 2007 with postifx, spamassassin, clamd 
>>and amavist running on Ubuntu and it has worked very well for me. This 
>>is actually quite surprising because I really didn't know very much 
>>about what I was doing back then.
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>>For various reasons I'm looking to upgrade/migrate to different server 
>>with new software and I thought I would just stick with what has worked 
>>for me in the past, until I ran accross www.mailscanner.info. This looks 
>>to use the software we are talking about but in a nice package that 
>>removes alot of the setup configuration.
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>>Am I missing something or is the "server-lucid-more-mail-integration" 
>>blueprint trying to duplicate this?
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>>I see the package is in the universe repos. Has anyone worked with 
>>MailScanner on Ubuntu? What are your thoughts on integration in a Ubuntu 
>>server versus the traditional setup?
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>Mailscanner and Postdoc are very much NOT recommended together.   The way mailscanner integrates with postfix is by direct manipulation of internal postfix queue files.   Since postfix treats these as internal,  their format is not guaranteed and if it changes,  mail loss results.  The package set you are already using is what both Postdoc upstream and the Ubuntu Server Team recommend and support. 
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>Scott K-- 

Postdoc/Postfix in each case.

Scott K