Mailscanner or Postfix, which one wins for you and why?

[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Hi Scott,

Scott Silva wrote:
> Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) spake the following on 9/10/2007 9:06 AM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I currently have a mailserver and workstation behind an IPCop firewall.
>> I have been investigating MailScanner as it seems to allow far easier
>> editing of the parts that make up a firewall.
>>
>> Given the number of IPCop addons that can allow an admin vast powers,
>> although I haven't installed any yet as I am a GUI man, the question
>> remains to all those IPCop users that have switched to MailScanner if it
>> is better/easier to use update and configure than IPCop.
>>
>> I await the comments with interest.
>>
>> Regards
>> Hylton
> Ipcop and mailscanner are as different as apples and oranges. Ipcop is a
> internet firewall and mailscanner is a mail filter. It is like stating
> that you want to replace your farm tractor with a sports car. They do
> different things.

Scott, THANKYOU.

Now I sort of understand how MailScanner fits into the network topology.
The webpage does not, for what I could see, give a definition of what
MailScanner does and or how it fits into the network topology.

I had not realised  that is just a mailscanner for picking up virii and
SPAM and therefore could be installed on the same box as a mail server,
behind a separate IPCop firewall.

Regards
Hylton