I guess that most people use amavisd-new together with spamassassin and for example ClamAV. Probably a few more use features like DKIM verification and signing with amavis. However, there are some features which aren’t found in the usual howtos. Here are some of them.
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Setting up amavisd-new and amavisd-milter
Amavis is not a new tool, in fact AMaViS started as a shell program back in 1997. Imagine, at that time I was 12 and kept annoying people on IRC. Anyway. In this article I’ll show you how to set it up, with a milter and policy banks. I also tell you about after- and before-queue filtering with Postfix and show you how to use both.
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What is MTA-STS (MTA Strict Transport Security) about?
MTA-STS basically enforces TLS for your mail communication, similar to HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. By telling the sender that TLS has to be used one can reduce / stop Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks. A probably better explanation is found in the abstract of the RFC:
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