On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:59, Nick Rout wrote: > I would run a box with postfix, amavis spamassassin etc and a good virus catcher.
I would run a box with Debian stable, and you'll get exim as your default MTA. You can install postfix if you prefer, but it would probably make not a whit of difference. Both exim and postfix are well supported for the configuration you want. I'd question whether you want to delete spam (and risk false positives, especially as you will probably not be able to do per-user learning). Probably just let the default spamassassin add a judgement, and give each user a mailbox filter rule that shuffles spam into a separate folder. On the other hand, I'd be happy to let amavis/clamav delete nasty emails. Clamav and amavis don't appear to be in Debian/stable, but are in backports.org and Debian/testing. The Exim FAQs don't seem to cover exactly what you're asking for in one go (although I'm sure it's a common enough situation), but they do cover the important bits :- Call spamassassin from within MTA http://exim.planetmirror.com/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/C047.txt Sit in front of Exchange server, validating addresses over LDAP http://exim.planetmirror.com/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/C043.txt -jim
