OT: MailScanner & Zimbra

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Nov 23 04:50:17 GMT 2006


"mailscanner causes swapping" is the joke that won't die!!!

> The reference to "mailscanner causes swapping" is regarding an old
> thread where someone was blaming MailScanner saying "it causes
> swapping"; everybody took turns explaining that "MailScanner causes
> swapping" sounds like "exercise causes breathing".
> 
> It's been asserted many times on this list that MailScanner works
> perfectly with Postfix, regardless of what some people (like Postfix's
> own Wietsev Enema) might say ;)
> 
> uxbod wrote:
>> Hmmm, interesting as I have been running both Postfix and MailScanner
>> on the same box for a year and even on a single server where I work
>> without any problems.  The only difference to other installations is
>> that I use two instances of Postfix, the first handles all the
>> standard checks HELO etc and performs LDAP lookups; if this is passed
>> then the emails are handed over the to the second instance where
>> MailScanner will perform its checks.
>>
>> I would imagine that a Zimbra installation may need three instances of
>> Postfix running FrontEnd->MailScanner->Zimbra.  I will probably start
>> on this at the weekend so will let you know how it goes.  Have some
>> interesting ideas to try out with the Ajax client especially for using
>> information from MailScanner for White and Grey listing.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:47:41 -0500, Alex Neuman van der Hans
>> <alex at nkpanama.com> wrote:
>>> uxbod wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is anybody on the list using MailScanner with Zimbra ?
>>>>
>>>> If so was it easy to integrate ?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
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>>>>
>>> Easy... if you have Zimbra on one box and MailScanner on the other.
>>>
>>> If you want to try and get MailScanner running on Zimbra, let us know
>>> how it goes... but beware, I've heard MailScanner on a box running
>>> Postfix (IIRC Zimbra uses Postfix) *could cause swapping*! ;-)
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