MailScanner + Zimbra...anyone done it before?

[Martin.Hepworth]

James

You could always just setup a separate gateway, but if you want it all on one machine...but I wouldn't advise it I've heard Zimbra's pretty hard on resources itself (although this is purely rumour when I tried it under very little testing it was OK). But SA (as you know) can be pretty heavy on resources.

Anyway

1) there's lots of scripts about that allow you to call the ham/spam as a imap folder and drag the email off the way. If you can't find I'll ding you mine off list..

2) you could - again I'd watch performance here..

3) In the mailwatch conf.php you can set it to call a 'sendmail' binary itself and then tell it you use the postfix sendmail equiv. here's mine..

define(QUARANTINE_USE_SENDMAIL, true);
//define(QUARANTINE_SENDMAIL_PATH, '/usr/sbin/sendmail');
define(QUARANTINE_SENDMAIL_PATH, '/usr/local/sbin/exim');

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of James Gray
> Sent: 07 September 2007 00:37
> To: MailScanner Discussion List
> Subject: MailScanner + Zimbra...anyone done it before?
>
> Hi All,
>
> The company that currently finances my lifestyle has installed Zimbra
> (www.zimbra.com) as their preferred collaboration suite.  However,
> after running it since May this year, I've come to the conclusion
> their implementation of SpamAssassin and ClamAV in Zimbra (via
> Amavis) is really poorly done.  Modifying the SA config is cumbersome
> and there is nothing available to check SA rules before installing
> them ("suck it and see", is about as good as it gets).  Even worse
> though, is there is no ability to notify a user if a message was
> quarantined by SA - it just never gets delivered and falls out of
> quarantine after "X" days.  Plus the attachment scanning is really
> quite mediocre.  Don't get me wrong, as a *BASIC* antispam/antivirus
> setup it's got ticks in all the boxes, but having been spoilt with
> MailScanner's flexibility and fine-grained configuration for years,
> it's hard to go back to a less-capable setup.
>
> So my question to the list: has anyone ever tried to integrate
> MailScanner with Zimbra?  Essentially Zimbra just uses Postfix as its
> MTA, so that's not too hard.  However, it's all the "other" little
> things that I haven't thought of yet that worry me.  Some of the
> things I have thought of are:
>
> 1. The Zimbra system has a "ham at ..." and "spam at ..." user where users
> send false positives/negatives.  These end up in a mailbox that is
> stored in a MySQL database, ie, no file-system maildir folders.  So
> assuming I want an automated learning script to pull the messages out
> and feed them to SA, I guess I'll have to use fetchmail or something
> similar to get the messages first.  Right?  Or would I be better off
> hacking something up to read them directly from the DB?
>
> 2. Mailwatch.  Zimbra has its own MySQL daemon, so rather than
> doubling up, I guess I can just create a "MailWatch" instance in
> there and feed it as per normal.
>
> 3. Quarantine and releasing mail, MailScanner's own notifications
> etc.  In short, there is no "sendmail" binary included with Zimbra.
> I have a separate exim binary but it's config is designed to send
> mail to the Internet as the "HELO/EHLO" host name Zimbra uses is not
> the same as the reverse of our external IP...so exim handles outbound
> mail.  Short of adding a new configuration file for exim to deliver
> to Zimbra's postfix, I'm not really sure how this aspect is going to
> pan out :-S
>
> When I get all this working, I'll write up some documentation on the
> wiki if anyone is interested.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James




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