Mailscanner / Postfix / Procmail

[Alex Neuman]

Haven't read those notes, but in my experience using .procmail to dump
all spam into a Junk Mail folder is almost a requirement - otherwise
SPAM keeps finding its way (albeit tagged) to people's mobile devices.
It may take a bit of CPU/disk resources to do, but it saves plenty on
bandwidth/user experience.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Patrick Healy <pjhealy at healyville.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is going to sound like a newbie question, but I'm having a brain
> hiccup and can't seem to completely wrap my head around this...
>
> I'm relatively new to postfix, but I've got a MailScanner / Postfix
> configuration set up and working.  Traditionally I would have set up a
> procmail rule to handle the spamscore and dump SPAM in to a folder.
>  However, I'm seeing notes about the huge performance hit that I'll take if
> I enable procmail in the postfix/main.cf file.
>
> My question is this - should I be using procmail to filter the SPAM that
> MailScanner/Spamassassin tag?  I know that MailScanner is taking things out
> of the HOLD queue and tagging them, then replacing them back into the
> incoming queue for Postfix to deal with, but I figured that MailScanner
> would handle the SPAM between those two steps so as not to add to Postfix's
> load...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks to all!
>
> Pat
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