[SAtalk] Just what you never wanted - another newbie

[Harlan Limajliew - MIS]

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.