[Maia-users] Maia mailguard

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

I have maia installed and ready to go, just need to finish setting up
amavisd.conf and start the amavisd-maia. I have some questions for
anyone out there that has setup maia. When comparing my running
amavisd.conf 2.4.5 to the suggested one from maia, I see a list of
supporting programs such as gzip, bzip2, file, etc. I don't have these
specified in my running conf, it seems amavis loads those present on
startup. I do see decoders in my current conf file. Doing a quick
whereis on each of these I only see dspam missing from my system, is
this required or needed? On our FreeBSD system, the port wants MySQL 5
to install. Also, I understand amavisd-maia does not support my 2.4.5 
settings. I went through the current conf file and do not see anything 
that would then change except my sql storage, can that still be used, or 
any need with maia?

My other questions were about whether I should have maia system default
user catch mail for non-local domains. Our servers are transport
gateways for the most part using Postfix transport to destination
off-server and off-network mail servers. I do have some local users
setup for testing and may decide to put some local domains on the
servers in the future. If I don't allow the system default for non-local
users, then where would the mail end up for users at domains in the
transports? Or do I need to put all these domains in local_domain_maps?

Finally, I see directly in the Pgsql db we setup for maia that things
like enable_virus_filtering and enable_spam_filtering with 'Y' as their
value. But if I go into Maia via the web and click on the System Default
User, these settings are disabled. Are that not one and the same? I read 
in the FAQ that no filtering is done by default, is this true even if I 
set the System Default setting to filter spam and viruses? Or, do I have 
to make sure all domains, users are in the maia system to filter them?

Sorry for the long post, like I mentioned, this is a running amavisd 
switch to maia, I want it to be as seamless as possible. My biggest 
concern is changing any amavisd settings/rules without my realizing it 
and customers complaining come Monday morning. Looks like a great 
program. Thanks for the help! Any suggestions or things to look out for 
are appreciated.

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Robert