Hi Joe, > What I forgot to mention was that I have a separate machine on which I have > installed Oracle's VirtualBox and would like to install Ubuntu (or any other > flavour if it's easier or better :) ) and then Dspam that is then configured > to filter and forward to the exchange server.
If you want to use a separate machine entirely to act as a spam filter /before/ the exchange server, you will need to set up postfix+dspam. I would have dspam called as a milter (content_filter param) and re-inject back into postfix for SMTP delivery to the exchange server. > I haven't found something like an administration manual that I can digest so > I'm still unclear on how the mail gets routed through Dspam and I'm unsure > about whether I need to install a mail server (I believe it's postfix by > default on Ubuntu) for Dspam to function You will need something like postfix in front of dspam, I dont know much about how Exchange servers work but if that server is just treated as an isolated final destination for mail, something will need to be in front of dspam to handle mail on port 25, etc.. > My understanding of your reply and the link you provided (very helpful) is > that Dspam does require a mail server for routing the email to Dspam to > process then passes it back to the mail server for relaying (in this case) > i.e. internet-> MailServerA-> Dspam-> MailServerA-> MailServerB where > > MailServerA = Postfix > MallserverB = Exchange > > And in my case everything between the internet and MailServerB is on the same > machine (my virtual machine in this case). Traffic on 127.0.0.1 should be > allowed so that Dspam and mail server A can pass emails back and forth. The > ServerPort is the port on MailServerA that receives mail from the internet > which would probably be 25 and the DeliveryPort is anything we want it to be > but it's the port configured on MailServerB to receive email sent to it from > MailServerA > Have I read it correctly? Yes, entirely. > > I have found the documentation in the Dspam download that is quite helpful > but if anyone knows of any other documentation in more of a Dspam for dummies > format rather than the How-To format I would appreciate it if you could let > me know where it is. :) http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/en:ressources:dossiers:dspam#using_the_postgresql_driver http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_DSPAM_and_Postfix The first link there I have found to be /extremely/ helpful :) Denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dspam-user mailing list Dspam-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
