Thanks Christian, Do you happen to know where i can get some ISO's for suse 9.1, the official site says not until 4th june, but i cannot wait that long, does the 9.0 version have the same Postfix/AMaViS/SpamAssassin option at install, oh by the way,this box will only be used for this purpose but are there additional programs that I defo need to install along with Postfix/AMaViS/SpamAssassin ie apache, or can i omit everything bar those three
cheers Gary -----Original Message----- From: Christian Barmala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 May 2004 19:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New SMTP/AS server 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 This electronic message contains information from Cetelem UK Credit Ltd which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify us by telephone or email (to the numbers or address above) immediately.
