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Virus and Spam Filtering options for your Qmail server along with the programs that call them.

The standard for virus scanning on Open Source mail servers is ClamAV so that's the instructions provided here.

For spam filtering, there are a couple of options with SpamAssassin being the most common.

Normally, qmail-smtpd passes a message onto qmail-queue for delivery. However, our install of Qmail has been patched with the qmailqueue patch that allows it to call another program first. Two such programs that act as interfaces to the email scanning abilities of SpamAssassin and ClamAV

  • QmailScanner - written in Perl so there is some overhead involved in running it. Instructions are provided for Qmailscanner, but they won't be maintained - I recommend using:
  • SimScan - written in C so it runs faster and also supports Dspam.