I use Suse 9.0 with Postfix and spamc/d called via a simple shell script. Postfix is great, doddle to configure (I'm also very much a novice), though if you want to use Antivirus you'll probably need to look at something such as Amavisd-new which glues the MTA and the AV together.
regards, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Mark A. DeMichele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Attemping to leave Windows Ok, after several weeks of investigating and toying with the idea of making a SPAMD/SPAMC-like version for windows, and finding a cheap windows SMTP proxy for my Exchange server (or making an SMTP event sink), I've decided that it might be easier, or at least less painful, to set up a linux box and use it as a proxy. The added benefit will be that I can use ClamAV as well to check for viruses. I am an extremely novice "unix" user. Actually, my experience was about 12 years ago using SCO Xenix. You can tell it's been long because I can't remember how to spell it. Anyway, I was wondering for everyone's opinion on what would be the path of least resistance. First, I have to decide on an OS (i.e., Red Hat, Mandrake, FreeBSD, etc). Now remember, I just want to use this box as an SMTP proxy for my Exchange 2000 server, so I don't need anything fancy. I also want to limit the amount of stuff I need to do to set this up. Second, I have to figure out what's the easiest SMTP server software to set up that I can hook into spam assassin and clamav and the forward all the message to my Exchange Server. I don't need a POP interface if that helps. Any information on this would be appreciated. If you know of any instructions of any kind relating to this stuff on the web, please include the links. Thanks, Mark DeMichele
