Spampd vs Spamd

[Jason Williams]

Hello everyone.

I was curious if anyone had an experiences with Spampd?
Im currently trying to decide on whether to use spampd or spamd on our mail
gateway.

Our gateway is running postfix, and I wanted all incoming mail received on
the gateway to be sent through SpamAssassin and tagged accordingly. It is
then relayed to our internal mail server.

I was curious if anyone had a preference or recommendation on which of
these two gives better performance, stability, and security.

Anyone care to share the experiences and recommendation? Maybe one works
better than the other in certain situations?

Thanks everyone.

Cheers,
Jason



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[Theo Van Dinter]

Post by Jason Williams
I was curious if anyone had an experiences with Spampd?
Im currently trying to decide on whether to use spampd or spamd on our mail
gateway.

Yes, it's very good. But they do different things.

Post by Jason Williams
I was curious if anyone had a preference or recommendation on which of
these two gives better performance, stability, and security.

I'd go with spampd. spamd is great if you would normally be running
spamassassin, but want something faster. You'd still have to worry about
getting the mail to the internal server. spampd, on the other hand,
is a SMTP relay (v2 is "transparent") which during the DATA portion of
the conversation, runs the message through SA, then spits the results
out to the destination mail server.

I didn't want to receive a mail, then fork off a spamc process, then have
it fork off a sendmail to put the mail back in the queue for delivery...
I just have postfix contact spampd, which connects to the destination
machine (I currently do localhost (non-filtered), but sending it to the
internal mail server works too) and filters the mail all in one swoop. :)