On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:30, dfox wrote: > Hi. I'm posting this on behalf of our worksite which has been inundated > with lots of spam. At home of course I can install Spam Assassin and get > rid of most of this stuff. But at work we are at the mercy of POP mail > and Outlook on Windows machines. > > Of course I am trying to suggest Linux but I don't think this is a > realistic alternative that management would be happy with. And we get > our mail from a "foreign" server (sbc=pacbell) and we are (I think) > dependent on their whims -- i.e., installing filters on the mail server > isn't an option.
use fetchmail to pop the mail from SBC, then deliver to a local postfix. Use postfix's tools to bounce via RBL if that floats your boat, or just call spamassassin via /etc/procmailrc. Reconfigure your end users to pop/imap off of that box rather than SBC. For extra credit, set up SASL-authenticated SMTP relaying too :-) If you have so few users that you're still reliant on SBC's "business" "services", you should be able to support everyone better than presently with any $300 white-box (http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m43.htm, http://www.pricewatch.com/1/43/4072-1.htm). Or you could buy the commercial windows version of SpamAssassin for all of your desktops (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/msk/) At $29 per desktop plus tax (ignoring the huge hassle of configuring desktop-by-desktop instead of on a single server), you'll break even at ten desktops. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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