[olug] Virus/spam filtering recommendations?

[Dave Thacker]

On Saturday, March 09, 2013 07:05:53 PM Lou Duchez wrote:
> Anyone ever set up a mail server that does virus and spam filtering?
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Years ago I came up with a mechanism that involves clamav and
> spamassassin, and it still works, but 1) it's kind of cobbled together
> and 2) it's resource-intensive.  I'm thinking it's time to revisit the
> topic of virus/spam filtering, and see if better methods are available now.

I use the Howtoforge recipe(1) for Postfix/ClamAV/Spamassassin on a decidated 
box.  Seems to work pretty well.   They will usually post one of these for 
each major distro.  

(1) http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-
mysql-and-squirrelmail-ubuntu-12.10

DT