On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael George wrote: > I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server > in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail > server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming > email on the server and I've never done that before... > > I've found several projects at freshmeat that claim to work with sendmail and > do virus scanning. I was hoping maybe some of the users on this list could > give me their recommendations to help me narrow the search. > > We'll be using a POP3 server for the windoze clients to get their mail and > sendmail for receiving incoming mail. Initially the server will be for > internal mail only, but eventually, the ISP will be the initial recipient of > all company mail and then throw it over the wall to the internal sendmail > server (which will only accept SMTP connections from internal hosts or the > single IP address outside. If this makes a difference... > > Thanks for all your 2¢-worth (in advance :) > > -Michael
I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly. Next install razor and then spamassassin. Those should go in very easily. This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out MailScanner. MailScanner works seamlessly with all of the above. It doesn't require any changes to sendmail/Exim and can be installed with an rpm. You will need to select a virus engine and MailScanner works with about a dozen of them. I highly recommend F-Prot. F-Prot is free for home/non-commerical use and for commercial users only charges per server. The other virus scanners charge per seat and it can get very expensive. They update their virus files every few days and MailScanner provides a cron script to download them automatically. There's also a great mailscanner-mrtg rpm that will allow you to view several graphs of your setup using your web browser. You can see server load, # of messages arriving, size of messages, ethernet traffic, cpu %, etc. This is for each day, week, month, and year. This may sound like a lot of work but if you do it one step at a time it pretty easy. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
