i use postfix, amavisd, spamassassin (and postfix does the inward delivery) for exactly this process at several sites.
... there's a pretty helpful (more detailed than usual) howto for rh 7.3 at http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html maybe you could annotate that instead of writing your own? On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:42:01AM -0800, Harlan Limajliew - MIS wrote: > The following is strictly to represent the scenario - > > > Goal: > > Replacing our Windows based filter (if you could call it that) that is using > a program named Mail Essentials. It does not provide anywhere near the > throughput we need (~120/min) and I have been hoping to show our IT director > it is time to switch to *nix based solutions on the back end. > > > Currently we are processing our mail as such: > > Several of our domain mx records all point to our "Traffic Cop" - it then > directs between 2 of our Mail Essentials machines - on to our virus scanning > machine - then to our primary Exchange server. > > > > > Internet -> "MX traffic cop" -> "ME1" or "ME2" (aka. Horribly slow and > inefficient content filters) -> Antivirus -> Exchange > ______________________________________________________ > > > I have set up a Suse 7.3 machine and basically at this point need to know > what components I am going to need - I'm not looking for a detailed how-to, > just more along the lines of "this connects to this which connects to this > and outputs to this" > > > This is what I have been trying, without much luck, and I'm sure I'm barking > up the wrong tree now > > Smptd (receive mail from our mx gateway) -> procmail (to run > spamc/spamassassin -p) -> sendmail(?) to forward through to our Antivirus > server > > Again, I apologize for being a newbie in regards to this, and I'm not > looking for a handout - aside from knowing which components I'll need, from > that point I have no problem reading man pages until my eyes bleed. Any > other advice that can be given will be greatly appreciated, and when I'm > done I will provide a write-up of my experience to share with others that > may have the same problem. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
