Thank you Viktor for your reply. We already have an anti-spam/anti-virus system sitting in front of our mail system. Would this then work if Postfix were positioned similarly?
>>> Victor Duchovni <victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> 3/11/2009 1:48 PM >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:35:26PM -0400, Jeff Bernier wrote: > Can I use Postfix as a host for email forwarding? > > The scenario I envision is an Alum or Faculty member authenticates to > a web portal, then tells the system where to forward their email. All > email destined for Staff would go to our current email system. > You *can* do this, but probably should not. The problem is that your forwarder will be saturated with spam that you will be poorly positioned to process. Receiving systems will soon blacklist your forwarder, and it becomes useless. Quaranine is not an option, and tagging will not be acceptable to receiving sites. Your only choice is to have a very effective filter to reject spam during SMTP, not easy to do. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.
