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Author: Tom Bombadil
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To: James Price
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] DSPAM vs MailScanner integrated with Exim questions
We do something similar here, but exim feeds DSPAM over LMTP, so we
don't need a lot of disks to keep up with queueing in the DSPAM box.

Also, clamav runs in the same box as DSPAM, so the inbound mail server
doesn't get overloaded with scans.

Cheers

James Price wrote:
> This will be one of those questions that hopefully I can gather a range of
> opinions on based upon personal use.
>
> I'm looking to integrate my Exim/ClamAV/SA setup with either DSPAM or
> MailScanner. I know this list has nothing to do with either of those, but I
> do believe many of you might use Exim integrated with these.
>
> Here is my setup. I run ClamAV onboard the Exim server, spamassassin runs
> on 2 separate machines dedicated to SA processing. I'd like to keep this
> same setup but running MailScanner or more preferably DSPAM on the SA
> machines and Exim feeding messages to DSPAM/MS via BSMTP rather than a pipe
> to a local binary like I see in many how to's on the subject.
>
> Any feedback on which is better for what would be appreciated. Right now
> I'm set on DSPAM, having it learn from SA and feeding it via BSMTP running
> on my SA boxes, which seems to be the way to go in my setup.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
> James R. Price
> DigitalCiti.com
> 3636 S. Iron St., Chicago, IL 60609
> Company Tel: 888.855.5550
> My Tel/Fax/Cell: 800.603.0769
> Web: www.digitalciti.com
> Email: james@???
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