Mail Server

[Eric Peters]

Hey guys,

     I have experience running a mailscanner back in 2004 on a Gentoo
box. And as far as my knowledge; that thing kept running hands off
till the company sold last year. It's a nice sold platform, once it
gets trained a bit. And I agree with Scott about Mailscanner and
Postdoc playing in the same sand box, it's only going to give you a
headache in the future. On a side note: My new deployment of ASSP
http://assp.sourceforge.net/ (2 weeks old) ran into an issue last
night and this morning. Seems a spam message is causing ASSP to
segfault perl. Once they fix their forums I will file a bug report.
The root cause is the mail header had 1702 "content type" statements
(buffer over flow I'm thinking) but in the mean time I whipped up a
Nagios plugin to to check for ASSP running on the local system, and if
it's not running start it up. etc.... But so far that's the only issue
I have had with it.

Cheers,
Eric



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Scott Kitterman <scott at kitterman.com> wrote:
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>
> "Mat" <mat at olitec.ca> wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Am I missing something or is the "server-lucid-more-mail-integration"
>>blueprint trying to duplicate this?
>>
>>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?
>
> 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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