8.04 MTA?

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Dan Farrell wrote:

>>> I will probably have to install sendmail or postfix as I want to run
>>> SpamAssassin, invoking it thru the MTA rather than thru
>>> Procmail. I have documentation on setting this up on sendmail
>>> but nothing on postfix.
>>
>> I can't believe the documentation wouldn't be _more_ available for
>> Postfix...
>
> Yeah, it should be pretty easy to scare up.  I have postfix on my mail
> server and strongly considered setting up server-wide spamassassin, but
> got lazy.  Honestly, if I were you I would use fetchmail and procmail +
> spamassassin if i _really_ wanted to keep all my mail locally.

I already run fetchmail and procmail. I tried running SpamAssassin from 
procmail but it slowed everything down to a crawl. Since I lurk on some 
high volume lists, it was unacceptable. The docs on Spamassassin I found 
claim that invoking it from the MTA creates less overhead and is faster.

>
> Consider this:  if you have a dynamic IP, people are unlikely to accept
> your email.  Unless you have a business-type connection, your ISP
> probably isn't even going to allow port 25 communication to or from
> your server.  Furthermore, keeping your mail locally means that unless
> you have remote access, you have to be at home to read your mail.
> Finally, who is going to send the mail to postfix?

Your last sentence lost me. Can you clarify?

Thanks.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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                                           Lazarus Long