[clue-tech] Email Gateway

[Jeff Falgout]

Peter Motykowski wrote:

> I'm currently consulting my employer on a fully OSS-based email 
> gateway that will perform virus scanning and spam filtering.  My first 
> recommendation was Postfix+Amavisd-new and have now been asked to look 
> at Mailscanner.  It looks like Mailscanner has quite a few features 
> that Amavisd-new is lacking, such as HTML stripping, statistics 
> reporting and more elegant message handling.  If we decide to run 
> Mailscanner, we'll use a different MTA since it seems to molest 
> Postfix's mail queues. Does anyone have experience with Amavisd-new or 
> Mailscanner that could give either a thumbs up/down for use on an 
> email gateway?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
We use MailScanner with Sendmail/ClamAV/Sophos/SpamAssassin at work and 
are quite happy with it handling about 50k messages per day with peaks 
just under 200k/day. It's quite flexible with a very active developer 
and mailing list. Several add-ons available for reporting, a webmin 
module, and a web interface (MailWatch). I highly recommend it.

Jeff