amavis/qmail

[Craig White]

meg@leary.csoft.net wrote:
> 
> Sorry I caused such a scruff. The fact of the matter is this;
> I do have qmail forwarding perfectly fine. Damn if it doesn't
> work perfectly. In fact, if given the same scenario, I would do the same
> config again. Qmail is a breeze to set up, I have no more desires to edit .cf's
> or, as Craig pointed out, .mc's; I have no problems whats-so-ever
> with mail getting to, and coming from exchange. I agree that that things like this
> are done all the time, and only make sense (god, I wish I had someone here that understood
> that part).
> 
> I am extremely dis-appointed in the whole Exchange deal (I have to throw this one in).
> (my dissapointments are also complicated by the fact that Exchange is tied to a NetApp filer
> utilizing their snapmager :-(
> In the ole days, when a user had a prob, it was soooooo easy to manage their mail. Now, I have user(s)
> who have viruses in their acount, and it is not as easy as opening mutt to delete the offending
> message any longer. Yes, we have the virus software on the client side: If life were only
> that simple any more.
> 
> Having said that, my budget is frozen. I do, however, have a site license for Sophos; Love it,
> and I hate it. Defintely a love/hate relationship. Won't go there at the moment. but what I am looking for,
> is a way to utilize my current license to pitch in and screen messages for viruses.
> 
> Sounds like such a simple process to me: Mail is addressed to my domain(s)....DNS show it the way
> to qmail....Amavis screens the message.... message get's handed back to Qmail, and off she goes to the Exchange server.
> 
> Did I miss a meeting somewhere?
> 
> Does anyone know if Amavis will screen against mail handled by dot-qmail files?????
> 
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see
<http://www.amavis.org/FAQ.txt>

and review the README.qmail file that was enclosed with the
distribution.

Craig