On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:04:49AM -0500, Matthew Barr wrote:
> I'm researching a new build of my mailserver.  I'd like to figure out what's
> the best option for dealing w/ Antispam / AV, as well as the other
> processes..
> 
> I know of 2 major choices-   do it your self, or outsource.      I'm not
> looking to outsource the entire thing, though.. just AV/AS.
> 
> 1. Outsource:  Postini, or other providers.  I'm open to suggestions - do
> people like them?   Do they price based on inbound address, or domain, or
> volume?  (I've got very few actual addresses, but that's mostly because
> there are a bunch of aliases.  Aliases will likely show up as email
> addresses to them, though.)
> 
> There are 2 non-profits being hosted, which might make it easier to justify
> going outside, if there are discounts for them.
> 
> 
> 2. Do it myself.    I'm fairly happy to do it myself, and will need most of
> it anyways - but am trying to figure out which policy daemon to use for
> postfix.  Have people started using the multi instance postfix support?
> Milters?  or just use amavisd-new, etc.  Or maybe Mailscanner..
> 
> I suspect that dovecot is the way I'll go, just for a change from Courier on
> the old server.
> 
> 
> Yes, it's somewhat silly to do this myself.  But I can't go ahead and keep
> up w/ the tech for mailservers at work if I don't keep running one at home.
> Plus I host a few other domains for friends, and nonprofits.  We would
> likely use Postini for mail at work, so it's not so bad to use it at
> "home"..

I have been very happy with this configuration:

http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/

I have built it on ubuntu, just takes a little tweaking.

Another option if you want to outsource av/as, would be http://mailroute.info
I'm tempted to set it up for my own stuff...

> 
> 
> Matthew
> 
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