I just started using a postfix/mailscanner/SA setup to filter outbound and inbound mail. Currently scanning about 35k messages per day. I'm a long time windows user / short time linux user, but had no problem getting it setup and running. I'm happy with the results, that's for sure.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scot Desort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:31 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Looking for Advice - setting up a SA/MD gateway server > > > We run a bunch of Win32 mail servers on our network. These > servers already have spam and virus filtering for local email > delivery. However, when a mailbox has it's mail forwarded > off-net, the mail is not filtered. As such, when a local > users forwards their mailbox to AOL, they then read their > email in the AOL client, click the SPAM button in the AOL > client, and OUR IP address(es) get flagged by AOL. > > Getting rid of the Win boxes is not an option. So, I want to > force all of my Win mail servers to gateway all of the > OUTBOUND email to a SA box that will filter it before it > leaves my network. I will need to have the filtering config > ignore the IP addresses of all of my internal boxes, and > begin scanning at the next hop IP in the mail header. I was > originally thought about having some way to ONLY scan > forwarded mail (as opposed to mail originating on my > network), but I think that would not be worth the effort, and > I might as well scan everything. > > >From reading as many FAQ's and sample configs as I could find, it > seems like SA with MD would be my best bet. It appears to > give me the flexibility I need, without being overly complicated. > > Initially, the server would not handle inbound mail, but may > be expanded to included that as well. > > Due to the way that the Win boxes handle forwarding, when a > forwarded message is detected as spam and sent back to the > Win32 box from SA, I can't really bounce it. I will need to > either forward it to a mailbox for my admins to review, or > simple delete it. > > Does it sound like the Sendmail/SA/MD combo meets the > requirements above? If so, is there an FAQ or some other > document anyone knows about that gives an example of this config? > > Would Postfix/SA/amavis-new be a better solution? > > TIA, > > > -- > Scot > >
