Aaron Wolfe wrote: >> Even given a server that has these things, I'm surprised they >> have invented technology that can analyze a postfix install to >> the degree needed for correct installation of their product with >> no more than a single click. With tech like that, I can't >> believe they haven't taken the world by storm. Maybe they're >> still working on single click world domination technology.
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > I have to totally agree. Postfix is *so* configurable that a single > point & click installer is just nonsense. I don't think Postfix > 'installation' as it is could be any easier than Debian: apt-get > install postfix. That's the easy bit. It's the configuration that > takes the skill. I disagree. This depends on the product's nature. I believe MailChannels Traffic Control does exactly that. The "one-click" would be an RPM/DEB package (or an actual GUI installer like BitRock) for Windows-style sysadmins who need a GUI while other sysadmins would be able to install with rpm or dpkg (or an included install binary/script) with a single command. All Traffic Control does is sit in front of the mail server and act as a discriminating proxy. Having not read any of MagicSpam's documentation, I can only assume that their product acts somewhat similarly, directly intercepting incoming mail as if it were the server, then doing some kind of hand-off to the real mail server. For 90+% of the users out there, no configuration options would be needed, and for a good number of the rest, a few menus could handle the bits that can't be resolved themselves. Traffic Control's selective tarpits are enough to stop almost all incoming spam, and the rest can be handled by a filter-based program like SpamAssassin. MagicSpam might do something similar. Milter-greylist (which is outgrowing its name -- it now supports SPF, DKIM, SpamAssassin, ...) currently has tarpitting in development. > Fair play to Linuxmagic if they can offer the support - which is > what corporates want. Selling cobbled together open source is > nothing new. Of course, the key to any of this is good support. I suspect MagicSpam uses their own ("patented") technology too, but that really has nothing to do with this since it's quite clear that a supported F/OSS spam-fighting bundle is itself quite profitable. -- Adam Katz khopesh on irc://irc.freenode.net/#spamassassin http://khopesh.com/Anti-spam