The following email was posted to the Imail user list by an ASSP user that has created some scripts for Imail/ASSP integration and user/domain validation. Thought they might be useful to other Imail users who lurk here. Links are in the email below.
Forwarded with his permission. Doug Traylor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Carr" <removed> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] ASSP - some thoughts and a handy script > Hey, list! > > I've been running ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net) as a proxy for Imail > for a couple of months now. The transition went quite smooth, mainly due > to > lurking here and learning from you, so I thought I'd share my experience. > > > ASSP runs on a standalone Win2k box - a 2.8ghz Xeon with 512mb ram - > acting > as a transparent proxy. It's currently handling 20-30.000 emails a day, > spread over ~400 domains. RAM is plentiful (except while rebuilding the > spamDB), and cpu-usage averages about 25%. All good, in other words. > > As others have noted, initial training was a pain, but it was worth it. > Even > though our userbase is diverse, we have almost no reports of > miscategorized > mail. > > > > Some features of ASSP require these lists: > - A "local domains" list which is checked before relaying > - A "local addresses" list which is checked to, well, validate local > addresses before accepting > - A "secondary hostnames" list, to invalidate HELO's > > In my case, these lists consist of all domains the Imail server will > handle, > formatted in various ways. Since we add and remove domains from Imail > daily, > I've scheduled a script to pull domains and do regular updates of these > lists on the ASSP server. Feel free to grab the script at > http://carr.no/assp-domains.zip > > Configure ASSP to use listfiles (by putting "file:yourfilename.txt" in the > relevant fields). Then, schedule the Imail server to go: "assp-domains.vbs > 1 >> \\yourasspserver\assp\yourfilename.txt". Read the script comments for > details. > > > > Any input or thoughts on better ways to handle ASSP in a major/diverse > environment would be welcome :-) > > Best regards, > Eric Carr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
