Personally I started with Redhat 9 and after the Fedora thing I tried Suse 9 and that's what I'm currently using, sure others have their preferences but they both seem idiot proof as I installed them and got them working very quickly :-)
I started out using this guide - http://www.advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html and sort of bastardised it with bits from other guides as I went along. I would suggest Postfix as the MTA, I'll admit I've not tried any other MTAs but having used Postfix I see no reason to as it just seems damned good and fast/stable.. What I would suggest is get a basic linux system up and running, then get the MTA running so it accepts mail for your domains and passes it to the Exchange server, then once that's working look at getting Spamassassin in place.. the payoff's worth it. regards, Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald I. Nutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:54 PM > To: Paul Hutchings; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Putting Spam Assasin between the internet and my mail > server > > > I am learning about linux. What did you use for your linux distro ? > Is there a doc/faq somwhere that can walk me through this kind > of setup ? > > Thanks, > Ron > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Network Manager > Information Technology Services > Georgetown College > Georgetown, KY > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:52 PM > To: Ronald I. Nutter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Putting Spam Assasin between the internet and my mail > server > > > Ron, > > There's probably windows ports of SA, but I'd say if you can > do so stick > a box running some form of *nix with an MTA like Postfix, passing mail > to spamassassin for scanning/tagging before relaying it to > the Exchange > box. > > Takes a little setting up, or did for me as I had no linux knowledge, > but now it's done and I'm amazed how much it can do for the effort it > took to learn how to do it! > > regards, > Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ronald I. Nutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:31 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Putting Spam Assasin between the internet and my > mail server > > > > > > I am looking to implement Spamassasin. I have probably overlooked > > something but cant find a way that I can have it sit between the > > Internet > > and my mail server. I am using Exchange 2000 and converting from it > > to something else wont happen for a while. Is there a way > to have it > > function as a smtp proxy for lack of a better word ? > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Ron Nutter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Network Manager > > Information Technology Services > > Georgetown College > > Georgetown, KY > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >
