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

[Martin.Hepworth]

Kinda what it says - it's an email scanner..

Page 2 of this document shows a reasonable process flow..

http://www.fsl.com/support/MailScanner-Manual-Version-1.0.5.pdf

Steve/Jules can we add this diagram into the wiki somewhere?

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
> Sent: 11 September 2007 19:09
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner or Postfix, which one wins for you and why?
>
> 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
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