mail relayed email after spam and virus scan

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#1 Tue, 08/07/2012 - 16:33
amel

mail relayed email after spam and virus scan

Hello,

just about to install a fresh Virtualmin on CentOS 6, which will be used as mail relay server. But the issue is that I will scan these emails for spam and virus before they are relayed, so I found a link below which is posted in 2009, so I am wondering if this configuration is still valid ?

Is there any changes so we can use a Postfix instead of sendmail perhaps or ? Can I still use the config from this link ?

http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,mail_relaying_with_virtualmin/

Thank you

Amel

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 23:20
andreychek

Howdy,

The problem is that there's not a great way to handle email relaying... that documentation you found should work, but it won't work with Postfix -- you have to use Sendmail. And we don't really recommend Sendmail, as most folks here don't understand it :-)

If you're comfortable using Sendmail, then go for it -- but if you run into problems, most of us won't be of much help...

-Eric

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:23
amel

Hello Eric,

thank You for reply, well I think You`re right... I already tried, and I can really say that documentation is "working" but ..... I got some issues as for example:

I should stop the postfix and start the sendmail but when I stopped postfix "service postfix stop" and than "service sendmail start" I got an error "the postfix could not be started" POSTFIX ? I am starting the sendmail and not postfix ... and some other wired things as for example, I was not able to remove the postfix from Virtualmin start page even if I deleted it from the CentOS and refreshed all of the plugins...

I have to find another way to relay the scanned emails .. :(

Thank You for reply

Best regards Amel

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