MailScanner + Zimbra...anyone done it before?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, James Gray wrote:

> 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.

I would disable as much of it as possible from Zimbra and set a seperate 
server next to it to act ias inbound and outbound gateway.

If they prefer Zimba I guess they do not like it if you turn it into a 
unmaintable beast.

Hugo.

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