From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RX1Lr-0006pO-HU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:58:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDDF521C049; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 01:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBC6E0459 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 01:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaal13 with SMTP id l13so117819eaa.40 for ; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:57:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U69Of5kkZPvWRizf2vQDKVQOUoNlMfAVVFGDh50nNRs=; b=UBleVWwc6mAsSIuhCKxaqYnE7iFqJTFr3lMNNOoJ97b9hAIGZBauezOyqeuXMUbsZ9 et7ENVEUy2itlUH3CdE87oV2b1pdfS23cfotuhMIPgcNuMmQ6jDymJacmLR5gZWb6LcT Guzwa1sxxTkZLZa2tDgH5Mu+SVysp1ZE7IQw8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.35.9 with SMTP id n9mr247564ebd.5.1322963845891; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.33.133 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 17:57:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EDACE76.9060400@orlitzky.com> References: <4EDAA89F.3090308@orlitzky.com> <4EDACE76.9060400@orlitzky.com> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 17:57:25 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2efc087b-014b-4f71-897f-ac6143dd858e X-Archives-Hash: e8532c6c981f4f6d107e5cd7b16272ca >> Very cool. =A0I found out clamscan and avgfree scan the filesystem so I >> thought I should set it up, but if it's not necessary I won't bother. >> All of my mail users are on Gentoo so do I need to bother having >> clamav scan my incoming mail? > > > Well, they aren't going to get infected with anything, but ClamAV could > still keep the virus message (which is obviously unwanted) out of their > inbox. There are also some third-party signatures[1] for ClamAV that catc= h > scam/phishing mail. There is info on Linux viruses here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware I shouldn't be concerned about that? >> I just did some reading on postscreen but it doesn't sound like a >> greylister. =A0Should I use postscreen in addition to postgrey, or are >> they substitutes for each other? >> > > Postscreen isn't a greylist daemon per se, but it has the same effect if = you > enable the "deep protocol" tests. Once it gets past the initial greeting > (into the "deep" stages), postscreen can no longer hand off the session t= o a > real smtpd. So, even if the client passes all of the tests, postscreen wi= ll > send it a "4xx try again." That's essentially greylisting. Got it. Sounds like postscreen is the successor to postgrey. I will set that up ASAP. Thanks, Grant