Mail anti-virus scanner recommendations ?
John Affleck
lists+ubuntu-users at lists.oddment.net
Fri Apr 22 13:48:10 UTC 2005
I have a small-ish home network based around a Hoary box. One of the
things I'd like to be able to do is provide inbound email virus
checking. Back in the old days of my RedHat setup, I used MailScanner
and sendmail, which appeared to work fine. When I moved over to
Ubuntu, I stuck with MailScanner and moved to postfix, which also
seemed fine. Recently I've been seeing alarming looking messages in
the postfix log about enabling hashed queues, which led me to some
googling and the discovery that MailScanner doesn't necessarily play
nicely with postfix. So I'm investigating other options. Which leads
to two questions:
1) Has the MailScanner/postfix issue been resolved ? There have
definitely been changes to the recommended config, and I'd be prepared
to just do what the error messages suggest [1].
2) Do people have a favorite/recommended postfix + virus-scanner setup
they'd recommend ? I'm already clamav'ing, so clamsmtp is one option,
amavis-* is another. MailScanner also did some rudimentary phishing
checks I was starting to become fond of - is there anything similar ?
Thanks,
John A.
[1] "MailScanner[5101]: Messages found but no hashed queue
directories. Please enable hashed queues for incoming and deferred
with a depth of 1 or 2. See the Postfix documentation for
hash_queue_names and hash_queue_depth"
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