Patrick Ring wrote:
I'm needing to tighten my gateways . In particular against SPAM.
I know there has been a lot of talk here about the Spamdyke software,
but I'm also looking at the virus protection side too (even though Clam
is in QMT).
Since I successfully run Untangle infront of my M$ Exchange boxes, I was
considering it for QMT.
Does anyone here have experience with QMT behind an Untangle server?
Is there anything I should be aware of?
Thank you,
Patrick M. Ring
P. Ring Technologies
Louisiana Web Host, LLC.
985-868-4200
I took a look at untangle a year or two ago. It's flashy and has a slick
interface, which unfortunately causes it to require more hardware to run
on than is generally needed for a router. I also don't think that
anti-spam software in general is suited to a router host/appliance. I
prefer running IPCop in front of QMT, which I do regularly.
I expect that spamdyke with QMT (and spamassassin) will catch every bit
as much and probably more spam than untangle or even postini would.
If you want to beef up virus detection, I would suggest augmenting or
replacing clamav with a commercial AV offering such as ESET or
Kaspersky. I believe that ESET can be easily integrated with QMT during
the delivery phase. I'm not sure about Kaspersky or others.
You should realize that spamdyke is only effective when it's "on the
edge", communicating directly with the sending server. Putting a device
which handles the smtp session from the sender in front of spamdyke will
defeat most of spamdyke's effectiveness.
HTH.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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