On September 14, 2004 01:01 pm, Dave Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day All, > > > I do a lot of work at my church as they have a small school and the church > administration areas. Recently I've noticed that the amount of spam is > going out the window.
I would suggest running your own mail server --- especially if you have your own domains --- then run spamassassin. Or if the church isn't concerned with requiring people who contact them to validate the email message, you could look at evsmail. http://www.evsmail.com > > What are you all doing out in the real world? We have multiple domains that > are currently hosted with Telus while Shaw is our ISP. We are planning to > host our on email in the near future. It's hard with windows clients to handle the spam tagging on the client. You can filter tagged messages. Shaw is tagging spam now as a service for it's customers so it maybe a matter of just filtering that. But I really haven't needed to look into it as I am not receiving any spam yet on my shawmail account. You could use a linux server that downloads the email from the various providers. You set it up to use maildrop or fetchmail to download the email from the various servers, then use procmail to run it through spamassassin and place it in the users account on the linux server. Then the user can just download the mail from the Linux server already tagged. If you add clamav into the mix you can also filter almost all viruses as well. I am very impressed with clamav as they tend to catch up with new viruses very quickly. They had an update for MyDoom.M within half an hour of us seeing them in our inboxes here. > > I'd like to put something in place to clean up the stuff coming into the > church. > > I'd also like to be able to set up a similar solution for our Senior Pastor > for his home computer. He's running XPSP2 on a Shaw network with a Linksys > router/Wireless Access Point. > Just have him use the same linux server to download email from. Though you don't want to run regular pop with normal authentication over the internet, so you will need to setup apop or pops. -- Mark Lane, CET -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sales Manager -- Hard Data Ltd -- http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 -- F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our New Dual and 4 Way Blade Servers <-- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
