On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Larry Gilson wrote:
> The preferred method is any way you prefer. ;) That is really an honest
> answer. Everyone has their own preferred method and a lot of times it
> depends on your specific situation. Some people will pipe to a filter shell
> script, Procmail, maildrop, or spamc directly. I prefer Procmail as it
> allows me to do more post SMTP processing with the message than the shell
> script or a direct pipe to spamc. maildrop works well for some people but I
> honestly am not familiar with it. I would like to hear from someone who has
> chosen maildrop rather than Procmail just to have a comparison though.
>
> --Larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robban
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:58 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [SAtalk] SMTP gateway/filter
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty new to spamassassin and I've only done a few
> > spamassassin/postfix installations. My next task is to sett
> > up some sort of STMP gateway that filters e-mail for spam and
> > if approved, forwards the mail to "the real" mail server. The
> > real mail server will probably be an exchange server but we
> > might also end up with godd ol' sendmail. What would be the
> > preferred practice in setting up such a thing. Any ideas?
> >
> > //robban
Larry,
I agree with the first part of your advice to Robban but completely
disagree with the Procmail part.
Robban is asking specifically for a filtering front-end to some
kind of back-end mail server (such as Exchange). Procmail would
require him to fake a delivery to each account on the SA processing
machine, which would mean that they would have to create user accounts
for every Exchange user on the SA box.
I think that Robban is looking for some kind of filtering "appliance"
that mail flows thru as a SMTP stream and the back end server handles
the delivery/user part.
Something like sendmail+milter, sendmail+mailscanner, postfix+spamc
or postfix+MIMEDefang would be better suited to this application.
It can process & tag mail with out needing any specific user account
information.
Dave
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