From: Chris Horry (zerbeywibble.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 11:38:20 CDT

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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 DFinnstudentadvantage.com wrote:

> I've been asked to setup spam filtering for our internal email here for our
> company. They didn't like the idea of using RBLs because they don't want to
> just drop the emails.
> So I've setup Postfix+Amavisd-new+SpamAssassin and it seems to be working
> well. Before implementing this my only question is is Amavisd-new
> neccisary? I don't ever plan to do any virus checks because that is done on
> our exchange server and we trust that(well, someone does anyways). Is the
> best/fastest/cleanest way to implement Postfix and SpamAssassin to use
> Amavisd-new as the go-between? This will be for a single domain which
> recieves probably 2500-5000 emails per day.

If you're not using amavisd for virusscanning only as a gateway to SA then
it's pointless to use it. Use spamd or procmail filtering instead to
check for spam mail.

Chris

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