OT: MailScanner & Zimbra

Alex Neuman van der Hans alex at nkpanama.com
Thu Nov 23 09:03:12 GMT 2006


I *love* keeping it alive myself... ;)

Scott Silva wrote:
> "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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