RE: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-28 Thread Otto Hirr
> Start here: > > http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#firewall > http://www.postfix.org/CONTENT_INSPECTION_README.html > http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_recipient_restrictions > http://www.postfix.org/DATABASE_READ

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Javier Fox
Hi Stan, Well, according to our appliance, it's processing about 240,000 emails a day. Our other mail filtering system, which is essentially an ancient in-house wrapper for Spamassassin that speaks libmilter to a couple old sendmail boxen, is a little harder to pin down. SNMP polling shows a

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Jorge Armando Medina
Jorge Armando Medina wrote: > Javier Fox wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I've inherited a rather kludgy email system consisting of an >> overpriced, underpowered spam filtering appliance which I would very >> much like to replace with a simple *nix box running Postfix and some >> manner of spam fil

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/27/2010 9:47 PM: > http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#firewall > http://www.postfix.org/CONTENT_INSPECTION_README.html > http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_recipient_restrictions > http:/

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Jorge Armando Medina
Javier Fox wrote: > Greetings, > > I've inherited a rather kludgy email system consisting of an > overpriced, underpowered spam filtering appliance which I would very > much like to replace with a simple *nix box running Postfix and some > manner of spam filtering software (ie spamassassin). I alre

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Javier Fox
Many thanks, Sahil and Stan. Just knowing the right terminology to address the situation by is a big help. I hate to sound like such an amateur but thus far I've been focusing my Sysadmin work on everything except email administration, so it's been an uphill battle. Thanks again folks, this

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Javier Fox put forth on 1/27/2010 7:57 PM: > Greetings, > > I've inherited a rather kludgy email system consisting of an overpriced, > underpowered spam filtering appliance which I would very much like to > replace with a simple *nix box running Postfix and some manner of spam > filtering software

Re: Postfix as a filtering/relay box

2010-01-27 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Javier Fox wrote: > -MX for domain points to the spam filtering appliance -Appliance > handles user verification (via ldap), rejection, quarantine, etc > -'Clean' mail handed off to MTA for final delivery > > The slightly funky part is that there are a number of destination M