Re: [webmin-l] virus scanner

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:54 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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.
----
fwiw, I use mailscanner with both sendmail and postfix mta's and have
had no problems with it whatsoever. Different strokes for different
folks I guess.

Craig


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