No, with amavisd-new it's an extra option that requires enabling after you
download the source. One thing I forgot to mention is that amavisd doesn't do
the actual virus scanning itself. It requires an 3rd party antivirus engine that
does the actual scanning. So if the antivirus you have only has a command line
version, amavisd will end up spawning processes for each email anyway. I use
sophie, which is a daemonized scanning engine that uses Sophos' SAVI API and it
works quite well with AMaViS.

http://www.vanja.com/tools/sophie/
http://www.sophos.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of jim
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 6:28 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Postfix and bogofilter
>
>
> Jeremy,
>
> Do you need to have SpamAssasin to run Amavisd?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> On Friday 18 October 2002 04:19 pm, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> > Have you looked at SpamAssassin with amavisd-new? Postfix filters mail thru
> > a direct SMTP connection to localhost port 10024 where Amavisd scans the
> > mail for viruses and checks to see if it's spam and then either responds to
> > Postfix with a "550: content rejected" or sends it back into postfix on
> > localhost port 10025. Since AMaViSD is running as a Daemon, Postfix doesn't
> > need to start a new process each time an email comes in, so it's very fast.
> >
> > http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/
> > http://spamassassin.org/
> >
> > my master.cf file:
> >
> > amavis-smtp	  unix	-	-	y	-	2	smtp
> >     -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200s
> >     -o smtp_never_send_ehlo=yes
> >     -o disable_dns_lookups=yes
> > localhost:10025	  inet	n	-	y	-	-	smtpd
> >     -o content_filter=
> >     -o local_recipient_maps=
> >     -o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
> >     -o smtpd_client_restrictions=
> >     -o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
> >     -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
> >     -o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8
> >
> > my main.cf file:
> > content_filter = amavis-smtp:localhost:10024
> >
>
>
>