Re: [webmin-l] virus scanner

[Daniel P. <da...@ri...>]

da...@so... writes:

> I was wondering what the word on the street is on the MailScanner 
> software. I note there's a webmin module written for it. Just 
> wondering about functionality, scalibility, and upgrading.

The scanning, etc, side of MailScanner works very well -- as well as
anything else out there, basically.

Personally, I wouldn't deploy it even if someone paid me, though.

MailScanner depends, by design, on poking around in the innards of the
mail queues of the mailers it uses.  This is ... an interesting
approach, since none of the major mailers actually document the queues,
or expect random software to poke at them.

It does basically work, but I really don't feel comfortable depending on
a package that uses as undocumented and unsafe interface to process my
email.


I would recommend, rather, the 'amavisd-new' package, which does a much
finer job of using standard, documented interfaces to pass email around.

Regards,
        Daniel