[olug] who's using what for milters?

[Lou Duchez]

Back in the naughties sometime, I cobbled together a "milter" (mail 
filter that does virus and spam scanning) that uses clamav, 
spamassassin, and clamassassin.  It works well enough I guess, but it's 
fussy.

Circumstances have forced me to rebuild a mail server, and while I'm at 
it, maybe it's time to install a better milter.  So, who uses what?

Side note, you won't regret using rsync to back up your important data 
to another server on a regular basis.  Every service your server runs, 
back up the associated data frequently: if it's a mail server back up 
your mail, if it's a Web server back up your Web directories, if you run 
databases do database replication.  Have a server at the ready that does 
nothing but collect backup data, so that, if you need to replace your 
production server, you've got a server all ready with the data and all 
you have to do is activate software and move data directories around.  
Being paranoid about this sort of thing turned a recent server failure 
into a minor inconvenience rather than a catastrophe.