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Current status in antivirus & antispam / MTA integration



Yo!

I'll be setting up a mailserver here soon - based on postfix (let's not 
argue about that in this thread, please :-) and cyrus imapd (the latter 
because AFAICT opengroupware.org requires it or at least runs best with 
cyrus).  I'm wondering how to set up my virus and spam defenses

 - antispam: I know spamassassin works, and our mail volume is small enough, 
so the CPU load is not an issue.  Where do I tie it in? One installation I 
did used a wrapper script for cyrdeliver to call it - mainly because I 
really like per-user customability. (I will use DNSBLs as a first line of 
defense, too, but I'm quite up to speed there, so that's not the topic 
here)

 - antivirus:
   - is clamav up to the task?  (Additionally, all windows workstations have 
Norton AV, too, and I'll be blocking .scr/.bat/.exe/... anyway, so it's 
only a very few ZIP and DOC files that will be making it)
   - what do I use to call clamav? amavisd(-new)? Call it from the 
cyrdeliver wrapper? something else?


Any pitfalls anybody wants to caution me against?

(Oh, and: I'm toying with the idea of separating ingoing and outgoing mail 
on two machines - is there anything to be said in favor or against?)

(And another topic - TLS: is there anything in favour of buying a 
certificate for a mailserver? I've not seen any mailserver refusing mail on 
a self-signed cert so far...)

thanks in advance & greets
-- vbi

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