On Thursday 29 March 2007 12:03, Chris Rouffer wrote: > I've been given the job of adding an Internet Content filter, firewall, and > spam filter to a small network in a non-profit organizaiton. Right now > there are about 5 email accounts, and their mail server is at their > web-host. Is it possible for me to run SpamAssassin as a filter on the > firewall box, so that it simply filters email when the user retrieves it > from the mail server:
I'd start with IPCop for the firewall. http://www.ipcop.org Then I'd add CopPlus (which is Dan's Guardian packaged for IPCop). http://home.earthlink.net/~copplus/ Then I'd add CopFilter to finish it off. http://www.copfilter.org That would get you a nice appliance that has all the administration controls available via web pages. An alternative to CopFilter would be to build a second box and build up a MailScanner box for the email. For a small place, that would probably be overkill. For a large outfit, I'd probably go that route and split mail scanning off from the firewall. I have a recipe for a MailScanner box here: http://www.leap-cf.org/presentations/MailScanner/ I believe that ClarkConnect can also do all the things you mention, but I think you have to purchase some of the modules. -- Ballmer is basically saying: We know there's a problem but we're not going to tell you what it is because we want to ambush you in the future.
