What mail server software?

At 03:30 PM 8/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>I'm pretty new to running a real mail server on linux, can ya'll give me 
>some ideas on how to drop emails with offending attachments?
>
>god, I sound like a huge n00b.
>
>jason
>
>-ray wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday we starting dropping all pif files since the 'our mailserver
>>removed the SoBig virus from this attachment' virus messages were getting
>>annoying.
>>
>>Here's how many we've blocked:  64575
>>
>>Increasing by about 20,000 a day...
>>
>>ray
>>
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>>On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Edmund Cramp wrote:
>>
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>>>We're getting about 50 per day that get through our SpamAssassin/Reverse
>>>lookup filter - these get 100% caught by the Kaspersky AV filter in the
>>>mailserver :-))
>>>
>>>Oddly enough, the SpamAssassin / Reverse Lookup filter has proved
>>>surprisingly effective at bouncing the mass mailing virus emails as well
>>>as reducing our spam level by at least 90% - on average we reject about
>>>18,000 emails per week as spam - SoBig.f has added about 1000 to this
>>>average so far this week!
>>>
>>>--
>>>Edmund Cramp
>>>http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm
>>>"If more languages had _smite_ implemented, the remaining programmers
>>>would be better than the current average."
>>>  - Mike Andrews in the scary.devil.monastery
>>>
>>
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