Hi Brett, "Brett, Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a sort of Dummies guide to setting up a mail server > which will sit in my DMZ with a public IP (the MX record will point here) > I would then like it to scan the mails for Spam and then forward the > successful mails to a Microsft exchange server sitting inside the network. most Linux distributions do a "base install" in quite a similar interactive, graphical way as Windows does. SuSE takes it with the YaST configuration utility yet a step further away from plain Linux towards a Windows-like graphical administration. That's why some people love it and others hate it. Especially it allows a point and click installation of Postfix/AMaViS/SpamAssassin and the latest SuSE 9.1 (which I didn't try yet) even contains the ClamAV virus scanner. You then have to modify Postfix's configuration to forward mails to Exchange. The Postfix/AMaViS combination has a drawback compared to Sendmail/Milter that you cannot reject spam. You have to accept it and then decide whether to bounce, drop, quarantine or deliver it. Having a fixed, public IP pointing to your mail server in the DMZ saves you from my troubles with NAT and DynDNS. Christian
