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[Lethe]

Hello all,

as per subjet I need to implement an SMTP proxy box on Linux which will be used as SMTP relay for Exchange 2007 box in the internal network, I'm trying to achieve this as I need to implement ASSP antispam and doing that under windows is not an option for some budget constraints.

Now even being a linux power user I don't have a specific experience with mail MTAs so I was wondering if anyone has an experience with this or could point me out to FAQ or how to, I'm going to timplement the solution on a Debian or CentOS box as these are the two distros I'm familiar with but I'm open to any suggestion

Basically what I need is something as easy as possible to implement and to maintain, so I would like to avoid qmail or sendmail for obvious reasons eheheh

Lethe.

[kush kumar]

You can use Postfix, as you don't want to use qmail and sendmail.

I have worked on qmail and configured it with the help of qmailrocks.org , not too much experience in postfix.

you can reffer postfix.org for configuration and after configuration if you face any error in postfix we can troubshoot.

[MarkinManchester]

Hi

EXIM combined with spamassasin seems to work well.

Cheers

Mark

[Lethe]

Thanks to both of you, yes Mark I know Spamassassin but trust me it is nothing compared to ASSP but I'll consider that as well.

I said no to qmail because last time I had to deal with it I lot 90% of my hair But well after all I'm a MS Systems engineer condition madee worst by the fact I'm a trainer too!!!

I'll try qmailrocks site and see if it can help me out, after all I need a very simply smtp server doing the realy prolly I'll be able to make it work ^^

thanks and I'll let you, if you have any other suggestion keep them coming!

Lethe.

[mctoffer]

you can also try qmailtoaster.org so easy to install.. just run the script and have a cup of coffee :)

[MarkinManchester]

Thanks to both of you, yes Mark I know Spamassassin but trust me it is nothing compared to ASSP but I'll consider that as well.

I said no to qmail because last time I had to deal with it I lot 90% of my hair But well after all I'm a MS Systems engineer condition madee worst by the fact I'm a trainer too!!!

I'll try qmailrocks site and see if it can help me out, after all I need a very simply smtp server doing the realy prolly I'll be able to make it work ^^

thanks and I'll let you, if you have any other suggestion keep them coming!

Lethe.

Hi

Honestly have a look at hxxp://www.exim.org/ its quite easy to configure and it's equal too if not better than most on the market.

Mark

[Lethe]

Thanks Mark, as usual I did not explain myself the way I wanted... what I meant is ASSP is far way better than spamassassin, I'll look into exim though ^^ This could make my life even easier as it is the default MTA on Deabin etch ^^

Thanks to you too MCT I'll check that one as well as I don't anything about it.

I need something easy to maintain as I won't be the person doing that so you can imagine the less problems I'll have in the future the better

Lethe.

[Lethe]

Well solved the problem using postfix and ASSP with ClamAV integration, I have to admit I'm impressed with ASSP results as spma is simply disappeared.

I'll blog about this soon as I really liked the solution and learned a lot in the process

Thanks for your support guys, Lethe.

[kush kumar]

good to hear that issue has been resolved

I will wait for your blog as I also want to learn postfix just for interest.