Re: SpamAssassin w/POP3 & SMTP outsourced e-mail server...

[Jesse Shumaker]

I am in a non-profit organization so we are very tight on money. A third party solution may be out of the question, depending the cost. Would Spamassassin have to grab all the e-mail from the ISP and then I would configure each client to access the spamassassin to download their mail? If there is a way to do this, with my situation, I would love to know. I'm not quite clear on what you are saying in your last response.

"Setup an SA box, point your domain MX records at it, then forward the emails back to your ISP for delivery. (complexity varies)"

How would this play out in my situation? How would the clients receive e-mail this way?

On 7/5/05, Greg Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Spamassassin is for incoming email, not outgoing.

 

You could.

 

1. Setup an SA box, point your domain MX records at it, then forward the emails back to your ISP for delivery. (complexity varies)

2. Do similar thing through a third party antispam company and save the headache. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Shumaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:00 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: SpamAssassin w/POP3 & SMTP outsourced e-mail server...

Here is my situation. Currently, our e-mail isn't managed within our organization. We have a third party ISP who is hosting the e-mail for us. We simply configure our Outlook clients to authenticate to their SMTP/POP servers. Is there a way that I could setup a SpamAssassin box at each of my sites to filter each Outlook clients' outgoing and incoming mail? I'm not sure if this is possible and I am a novice on the technology of e-mail. Here's how I see it working:

It would be just like a web proxy. The outlook clients are redirectd to the spamassassin box which filters the e-mail and forwards/relays the requests onto our ISP's e-mail servers. If you can assist me at all with this I would be greatly appreciated.

thanks