[SAtalk] Just what you never wanted - another newbie

[Quentin Krengel]

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>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.   Greetings Harlan:   I have a similar architecture set up.  My Linux server accepts mail for the domain when it is available (which is always :) )  because the domain's mx record lists the Linux server as the highest priority mail server.  The Linux server is configured to accept all mail for the domain, scrub it with Spamassassin, and forward it on to the next server, which in your case would be your antivirus server.  I'm using a Debian Linux machine (extremely easy to load), sendmail and spamass-milter from www.milter.org.  the README in the spamass-milter tarball provides step-by-step instructions for installing the milter to sendmail and setting up spamassassin.  Utilizing a milter +spamc/spamd is the most lightweight way I've found to process spam on the box, and is a little easier to set up as it does not utilize procmail, which is geared more toward processing local mail.  There are some posts in the history here at sa-talk about setting this architecture up.    In the architecture you described, your "traffic cop" serve would forwwrd mail to the Linux server, which would have sendmail configured to accept all mail for the domain.  The linux sendmail would call SA,which would check the mail for spam and append the "***SPAM*** subject line as needed.  The Linux server would then forward the mail to the antivirus server (or you could just run the Antivirus on Linux).  If you need more information feel free to contact me.      Quentin Krengel                      \ \ ! / /                 ( @@ ) _______o000------000o____________ _______][______][_______][_______ ___][______][______][_______][____ _______][______][______][________ Stop peeping over the wall AT the Internet. Be a part of the modern day Gold Rush. >> http://www.theanswerto.com/oilsoflife?qs