I have a question for everyone running SA on a gateway. Are all of you checking against a user list, or are you forwarding everything to internal and letting the internal reject on unknown users?
Also, do you scan outgoing, or simply let it pass? I check against a user alias list on the gateway. No users accounts exhist, only aliases to procmail scripts. (This rocks with only one small side effect of no read-receipts are sent out of company. Which I think is great!) Connecting via LDAP would lower admin overhead, but open up a port I don't wish to for security reasons. So I have to run a 'newuser' script for new employees on the gateway when I setup them on the internal. No biggy. Our outgoing email doesn't even touch the gateway system :) The gateway is actually in a sort of email DMZ. Where only email traffic is allowed to get to it. Yes I actually have to get my butt up and go to console to work on it. Tight security has its price. I don't know why I'm so tight about it. Someone might find out we are out of peridot colored crystals! Oh no! :) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin >-----Original Message----- >From: Ronald I. Nutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:31 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Putting Spam Assasin between the internet and my mail server > > >I am looking to implement Spamassasin. I have probably overlooked >something but cant find a way that I can have it sit between the >Internet >and my mail server. I am using Exchange 2000 and converting from it >to something else wont happen for a while. Is there a way to have it >function as a smtp proxy for lack of a better word ? > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ron Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Network Manager >Information Technology Services >Georgetown College >Georgetown, KY >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
