Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-08 Thread Simon Brereton
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix- us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of jeremy.als...@imap-mail.com Hi Victor. On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:59 -0400, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: Start simple, and add features gradually. There is a steep learning

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Simon Brereton put forth on 4/8/2011 8:19 AM: . Add in the postfix's native spam controls, limiting and checks In this regard, try this out in your initial setup. A brief description and instructions are at the top of the file. It's very easy to implement--one line in main.cf. It will

To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread jeremy . alsten
Hi everybody. I've been reading up how to install a mailserver for my office. At the local computer users group I was told about using PostFix on an Ubuntu system instead of Microsoft Exchange Server on Windows. I saw a demo at the user group, and thought it's worth a real look. They told us

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread jeremy . alsten
Hi Daniel. That was a quick reply. Thanks a bunch. Sorry, I got all the terminology wrong. Thanks for the lesson, though. Hopefully it'll stick a bit. Even a simple modern desktop PC can easily run (host) many server processes. Postfix is especially economical in this regard especially if

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
jeremy.als...@imap-mail.com put forth on 4/7/2011 8:39 PM: I think I get what you're saying about servers, processes and hosts. So one host is good enough. It'll have multiple processes running on it. So how many PostFix's, or these Instances of it, do I need to install to just get what I

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread Daniel Bromberg
On 4/7/2011 9:39 PM, jeremy.als...@imap-mail.com wrote: [snip] Whoa. I took a look at that and that's a bit much for me at this stage of the came. Do I need do it this Multi_Instace way? Even with your explanation I still don't understand how many PostFix servers I need to install on my one

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread jeremy . alsten
Hi Stan. And Daniel. You're way out in front of yourself. Setting up spam filtering will come well after you get the basic setup accomplished and working. First you need to cover the basics: I'm pretty sure I got most of these covered when we had Microsoft Exchange set up. Do you have an

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:33:33PM -0700, jeremy.als...@imap-mail.com wrote: That's a good example. That's all on one server or instance then? I mean you only have one master.cf and one main.cf for your setup? You don't have to use multiple instances if your configuration is very simple.

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread jeremy . alsten
Hi Victor. On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:59 -0400, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: Start simple, and add features gradually. There is a steep learning curve for a novice to deploy a complex production system with no prior experience. It sure feels pretty steep already. I

Re: To install a PostFix-based mailserver with Content Filters do I need to have multiple servers?

2011-04-07 Thread Daniel Bromberg
On 4/8/2011 1:21 AM, jeremy.als...@imap-mail.com wrote: If I do any of the Multiple Instance setup is there a good Document that tells what configuration goes into what file? Does configuration flow down from the 1st one you setup ? So that PostScreen configuration, which looks to do some of