Mailscanner / Postfix / Procmail

[Alex Neuman]

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tag low scoring spam I tag the subject and deliver, for high scoring spam
> the action I just delete it don't deliver.
>
> Now I'd suggest having the mailscanner gateway on separate machine (real or
> virtual) from the end user server, I've seen too many issues with mixing the
> two, esp when it comes to updates of the OS and applications. Plus it's
> better to keep the load off the user email server so it can concentrate on
> that job and not be affected too much by having to process all that crub
> email in the first place.
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> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
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> On 23 March 2012 13:06, 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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