[Scottish] Qmail or Exim?

[Rory Macdonald]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 14:39, Tam McLaughlin wrote:
> Hi, 
> I am about to replace our Eppliance Gauntlet firewall with Smoothwall 
> Corporate Server. However, this means we will loose some functionality in the 
> current firewall, mainly anti-virus scanning and filtering of spam.
> So, we have to decide on the following:
> 1) Patch and modify our current internal qmail server to add on anti virus 
>    scanning  and anti-spam capabilities. It looks like qmail has limited    
>    support for anti virus products i.e. sophos
> 2) Take the opportunity to install Exim on different hardware and something 
>     like Amavis which supports several anti virus products.

Different hardware? Any reason you can't just replace qmail on its
platform?

> I would appreciate advice or ideas especially from anyone who has set up an 
> email server with anti virus scanning.

qmail-vs-Exim? Sorry Tam, I'm not going to recommend one against the
other as its a semi-religious issue for some, and I can't be bothered
with the noise. Check the docs and mailing lists avail for each MTA. Try
the packages out, see which meets your requirements - which one gives
you a fuzzier feeling. They're both quite capable.

If you want to stay with qmail then I'd recommend trying out
qmail-scanner, a harness in which you can run spamassassin and a variety
of AV packages (certainly not limited to just sophos).

For Exim, I'd suggest having a look at exiscan, similar idea in that it
allows you to use spamassassin and an AV of your choice.

Some links?

http://www.qmail.org/
http://www.exim.org/

http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/
http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/
http://www.spamassassin.org/
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html (exim + spamassassin only, no
AV)

http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/
http://lists.merlins.org/lists/listinfo/sa-exim
http://duncanthrax.net/exilist/exilist.cgi.pl
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general

Would love to hear what quotes you get for AV packages btw :-)

Regards

Rory