Mail anti-virus scanner recommendations ?

[John Affleck]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:02:46PM +1000, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Juan Nin wrote:
> > Bengt Thuree wrote:
> >> It is fixed now...
> > 
> > 
> > mmhhhh...
> > at http://www.postfix.org/addon.html it says:
> > 
> > mailscanner system, works with Postfix and other MTAs. This uses
> > unsupported methods to manipulate Postfix queue files, and there are
> > multiple reports of message duplication and/or delivery of truncated
> > messages.
> > 
> This is with the previous solution of having two Postfix deamons
> running. The current one is using only one Postfix daemon and the more
> standard way.
> This was discovered/released/discussed late last year...
> For more information check this link
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/382.html

The 'single instance' solution is what I've been running.  I haven't
seen any problems either, but I'm a little nervous about the number of
changelog entries for MailScanner that are related to 'surprise'
changes in postfix.  I'm not saying it doesn't work, and I still favor
the MailScanner solution in principle, but, in practice, having a
stable solution based on well documented interfaces would go a long
way to making me feel comfortable about the reliability of my email
subsystem.

amavisd-new seems to be a reasonable replacement - it has the
feature-set I'm looking for, and it does use a slightly more stable
interface to postfix..

	Thanks,

	John A.