Not to be too redundant here, but I have been running Postfix on a Slackware
box as a corporate SMTP gateway. I would highly recommend Postfix for such
an application. The benefits of such a system are RBL checks on incoming
mail, low overhead, and with rrd one can produce pretty little graphs(to
show management). Recently Spam had become a major problem for us, as many
others I am sure. I decided to implement SpamAssasin with Postfix in
advanced filtering mode. There is plenty of documentation on different
filtering techniques with Postfix. Since 2/12/03 SpamAssassin has caught
10143 pieces of UCE with a very low false positive rate. The best part
about the system is it costs our company $0. Just some thoughts on non
commercial software.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: B. van Ouwerkerk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: SPAM blockin software recommendations..... [bcc]
It seems the idiots are getting better all the time :-)..
I don't run Postfix myself so I can't really comment on the paper you refer
to.
Take a look at www.postfix.org too, I personally check several sources to
find out if a certain piece of information is true. Which does not mean I
don't trust Advosys but I'd rather check it all the same. They may have
forgotten some information you may need.
B.
At 19:25 23-03-2003 +0000, you wrote:
>I think I'll have a play with Redhat 8 tomorrow as we have the CDs at work,
>last time I installed it I used Webmin to configure Postfix and it seemed
>fairly straightforward to get the basics working.
>
>http://advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html seems fairly
>idiot-proof for the spamassassin filtering?
>
>regards
>Paul
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "B. van Ouwerkerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:07 PM
>Subject: RE: SPAM blockin software recommendations..... [bcc]
>
>
> > At 17:47 23-03-2003 +0000, you wrote:
> > > > I recommend qmail, which is not only highly secure - it has
> > > > NEVER had a security breach - but is also at least 4-5 times
> > > > as fast as Sendmail, and much, much easier to set up and configure.
> > >
> > >I know this question always stirs up a bit of a hornets nest amongst
*nix
> > >users, but which distro would you suggest for someone with sod-all *nix
> > >knowledge looking to setup an MTA with spamassassin filtering?
> >
> > Really?? I don't see why it should..
> >
> > If you like to do things the hard way (like /me) you should go for
> > Slackware. It's the best but also less friendly for Windows users. Pico
is
> > wat comes as close to a gui as it gets.. for those of you who don't know
> > Pico, it's just as graphical as the good old edit on the DOS prompt. :-)
> > It even got some mouse support.. but who needs a mouse if you can do it
> > with tapping some keys.. right?
> >
> > More friendly distro's are RedHat, Suse both provide commercial support.
I
> > think Mandrake provides commercial support too. If you feel more like a
> > free product then Debian is your distro.
> > Whatever you do don't use Linuxconf for setting up Sendmail, it's broke.
> >
> >
> > B.
> >
> >
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