> > Hi, > > I am about to replace our Eppliance Gauntlet firewall with Smoothwall > > Corporate Server. However, this means we will loose some functionality in > > the current firewall, mainly anti-virus scanning and filtering of spam. > > So, we have to decide on the following: > > 1) Patch and modify our current internal qmail server to add on anti > > virus scanning and anti-spam capabilities. It looks like qmail has > > limited support for anti virus products i.e. sophos > > 2) Take the opportunity to install Exim on different hardware and > > something like Amavis which supports several anti virus products. > > Different hardware? Any reason you can't just replace qmail on its > platform?
I have a few spare PCs and a spare server so it would be easier to set up and test another email server on another machine. In fact, the current email server runs on a P600 with 128Mb RAM and also runs squid and leafnode without any problems so I do not really want to put this on a P3700 server with 256 Mb RAM. I think it would be a waste of a good server. > > I would appreciate advice or ideas especially from anyone who has set up > > an email server with anti virus scanning. > > qmail-vs-Exim? Sorry Tam, I'm not going to recommend one against the > other as its a semi-religious issue for some, and I can't be bothered > with the noise. Check the docs and mailing lists avail for each MTA. Try > the packages out, see which meets your requirements - which one gives > you a fuzzier feeling. They're both quite capable. > > If you want to stay with qmail then I'd recommend trying out > qmail-scanner, a harness in which you can run spamassassin and a variety > of AV packages (certainly not limited to just sophos). > > For Exim, I'd suggest having a look at exiscan, similar idea in that it > allows you to use spamassassin and an AV of your choice. > > Some links? > > http://www.qmail.org/ > http://www.exim.org/ > > http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ > http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/ > http://www.spamassassin.org/ > http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html (exim + spamassassin only, no > AV) > > http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ > http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/ > http://lists.merlins.org/lists/listinfo/sa-exim > http://duncanthrax.net/exilist/exilist.cgi.pl > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general > > Would love to hear what quotes you get for AV packages btw :-) Thanks for all the links. I'm waiting on a few quotes for AV software, so will let you know what I get. > Regards > > Rory > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
