mail software for freebsd

[Christian Damm]

Bikrant Neupane schrieb:
> We have been using qpsmtpd in our mx for almost 2 years now. It is written in 
> perl and is modular but resource utilization is very high in terms of cpu and 
> memory usage.
> 
> It checks for:
> 
> early talkers
> spam helo 
> max limit to unrecognized commands
> dns resolve
> tarpit limit
> badmailfrom
> badrcptto
> dnsbl
> recipient verification from radius for local domains
> spamassassin
> grey listing
> 
> and lot more.
> 
> By using above filters I have been able to filter out more than 70% of the 
> mails that my MX receives. And some modules can reject mails just by reading 
> the mail headers even before getting the data. This does save bandwidth on my 
> link. Qpsmtpd finally delivers the mail to qmail-queue. However I have 
> patched qmail to integrate it with qmail-scanner. Qmail-scanner then calls 
> clamdscan which checks for virus with the clamd running on another server.
> 
> But obviously this system is not fast!!! and is heavy on resources and that's 
> the only issue I have. User validity check against radius is the main feature 
> for which we are using qpsmtpd. 
> 
> Can you one suggest me a better mta than this with all those features :) 

if you are looking for an extremely fast, stable, secure and scalable 
MTA with top notch anti-spam features out of the box, go with postfix - 
you wont regret it...all of the anti ube/uce stuff you mentioned above 
is possible with postfix (some of them with a little bit of tweaking) 
because of postfix`s very modular architecture.

> 
> 
> regards,
> Bikrant
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday 03 April 2005 14:56, vaida bogdan wrote:
> 
>>Hy, I woule like to know which mail setup that has the following
>>characteristics you use for primary mail servers:
>>       - fast and reliable delivery
>>       - anti spam/phishing/virii filterring
>>
>>I would like to reduce the number of packages used in my current
>>configuration or possibly change it as I have a hard time debugging
>>problems.
>>  - postfix+qmail maildir
>>  - courier imap
>>  - razor agents
>>  - procmail
>>  - spamassassin
>>  - amavis
>>  - clamav
>>  - cyrus sasl2
>>
>>Thanks,
>>  Bogdan
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