ClamAV and Dr. Web and psa_SpamAssassin

webicity · Unread post by **webicity** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:25 pm

Despite the claim (SW-Soft) that Dr. Web contains more virus definitions, my experience with manually running ClamAv on host directories was impressive so I elected to have the datacenter techs integrate ClamAV with Qmail rather than buy another year of Dr. Web. What I didn't expect was when the tech said that they would need to redirect to the generic SpamAssassin instead of the integrated PSA version. I didn't realize how many clients had psa_SpamAssassin set to "delete" after 5 hits. Now the messages are well marked ***SPAM***HIGH --- by the hundreds. Ooops! Not what I had planned on.

Thoughts? Did I make a mistake? Should I have left Qmail and psa_SpamAssassin well enough alone? Is Dr. Web really any good? Should I have come to this forum first (your RPM)?

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:50 pm

You can set qmail-scanner up to delete spam too. Another option is to set up a dedicated anti-spam server (Project Gamera) and do your AV there.

webicity · Unread post by **webicity** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:44 pm

I'm not in a position to add a second server for email, although I know that's always a good idea, but your second idea is interesting. Actually I had been hoping for a "have your cake and eat it" solution where the PSA SpamAssassin control panel functions would still be active. I thought I saw something from AtomicRocketTurtle on the Plesk forum that suggested some kind of mind-meld between ClamAV, and psa_SpamAssasin.

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:20 pm

Sort of, I first put a web front end on it back with PSA 5.0 using squirrelmail. Internally spamassassin can store its settings in mysql, PSA kind of does this in a completely differnent manner. They store settings in mysql, and then use a utility to write those settings to files spamassassin reads from the disk.