postgrey question
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Jun 1 07:22:48 PDT 2005
Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently
> I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw
> an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns out there's a port for
> it already in FreeBSD.
>
> I am still googling for info, but as I understand it the policy will
> inject the message to another queue for postgrey to evaluate? If this
> is true, what happens if I install it while still running the
> postfix/amavis solution, which is also a double-queue system for
> evaluation of messages? Will doing a make install for postgrey damage
> the installation we currently have in place and working?
>
> Anyone else running postgrey with amavis on postfix, on FreeBSD? I'd
> appreciate any feedback/experiences people have to offer.
Yes, I'm running Postgrey with Amavis on FreeBSD. Works great.
The short answer is that Postgrey plays nice with Amavis.
The medium-length answer is that Postgrey simply becomes another check
that is run. Postfix has a "policy service" hook that allows Postfix
to consult with an outside program prior to accepting mail. This is
a different process than the multi-queue system that Amavis uses, and
the two co-exist nicely. Postgrey works more like the rbl checks than
the multi-queue system that Amavis uses.
The long answer is contained in the technical details of Postfix, and
the Postfix source code, and I won't attempt to duplicate that here ;)
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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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