Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

[Gabriel Marais <unix () 64bit co za>]

On 2011/04/09 11:38 AM, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> Tim Chown (tjc) writes:
> > I don't know quite how high a performance you need. If it's just email
> > spam/viruses you are concerned with, you can run MailScanner for free,
> > see http://www.mailscanner.info. It's been around for 10 years now and
> > used by a lot of big organisations, many of which are listed on the
> > web site. Written by a colleague here at University of Southampton,
> > hence the plug. If you install and run it yourself, there's a good
> > community mail list for support and tips.
>
>         ... or just run amavisd.  MailScanner used to do Bad Things with the
>         Postfix queue, but since then I think they have fixed that, but I will
>         admit to not having any experience with it.

I have 6 MailScanner servers in production running with Postfix, not had 
any 'real' issues in the last few years.


>         As to amavisd:
>
>         http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/
>
>         Have been using it on 1 million mails / day with satisfaction