If you choose to use Untangle, that's what I would recommend.
Great minds think alike. :)
--
-Eric 'shubes'
Amit Dalia wrote:
I'm using Untangle in my network but I prefer not to use Anti-Spam
feature of the same. Instead I use SPAMDYKE on my QMT server.
Regards,
Amit
At Monday, 02-08-2010 on 4:15 Patrick Ring wrote:
I have often felt Untangle needed a bit more cpu than most appliances
should, but I've been pleased with it on my office-only network which is
why I asked what some here may think.
I guess this confirms my feelings that Untangle is best suited for a
small-med business firewall and content control appliance than just a
dedicated SPAM/virus filter.
As for Spamdyke, I figured it would be best suited to function directly
on the permimeter of the mail network (because of what it does). Would
you suggest putting Spamdyke on a dedicated box that relays mail in, or
just run it on my QMT boxes directly?
I'm not familiar with IPCop at all. I'll have to look at what it does.
Thanks,
Patrick M. Ring
P. Ring Technologies
Louisiana Web Host, LLC.
985-868-4200
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Shubert [mailto:e...@shubes.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 4:47 PM
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: Does anyone on QMT use Untangle?
Patrick Ring wrote:
> I'm needing to tighten my gateways . In particular against SPAM.
>
> I know there has been a lot of talk here about the Spamdyke
software,
> but I'm also looking at the virus protection side too (even though
> Clam is in QMT).
>
> Since I successfully run Untangle infront of my M$ Exchange boxes, I
> was considering it for QMT.
> Does anyone here have experience with QMT behind an Untangle server?
> Is there anything I should be aware of?
>
> Thank you,
> Patrick M. Ring
> P. Ring Technologies
> Louisiana Web Host, LLC.
> 985-868-4200
>
I took a look at untangle a year or two ago. It's flashy and has a slick
interface, which unfortunately causes it to require more hardware to run
on than is generally needed for a router. I also don't think that
anti-spam software in general is suited to a router host/appliance. I
prefer running IPCop in front of QMT, which I do regularly.
I expect that spamdyke with QMT (and spamassassin) will catch every bit
as much and probably more spam than untangle or even postini would.
If you want to beef up virus detection, I would suggest augmenting or
replacing clamav with a commercial AV offering such as ESET or
Kaspersky. I believe that ESET can be easily integrated with QMT during
the delivery phase. I'm not sure about Kaspersky or others.
You should realize that spamdyke is only effective when it's "on the
edge", communicating directly with the sending server. Putting a device
which handles the smtp session from the sender in front of spamdyke will
defeat most of spamdyke's effectiveness.
HTH.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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