Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:33:23 -0800 From: "Wright, Greg" <wrightg@bcrail.com> To: "Bart Silverstrim" <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: E-Mail Gateway Message-ID: <0A417B49F5CACA4185B7E606F349CC850CED15@sc1621.bcrail.com>
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Bart, thanks for the reply !! I had been looking at qmail with clam an= d spamassassin, but somebody told me that qmail might not be appropriate= as a secure mail gateway. It was not designed to route mail, but instea= d to act as just a mail server for local mailboxes. I'll take another= look at postfix. Thanks again. Greg Wright BC Rail Vancouver, Ca= nada -----Original Message----- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:bsilve= r@chrononomicon.com] Sent: March 8, 2004 09:15 To: Wright, Greg Cc: <= freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: E-Mail Gateway On Mar= 8, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Wright, Greg wrote: > I would like to use FreeB= SD (4.9) as the platform on which to run an > secure e-mail gateway. A= t least that is what I think I would like to > do. The reason for Free= BSD is that I much more familiar with it than > other "free" Unix like = operating systems. I have worked with DEC > Ultrix, Digital Unix and A= IX in the past so have some knowledge of > Unix. > > > But the real = goal is to put some sort of secure mail server/forwarder > between my i= nternal MS Exchange system and the Internet. I don't want > to connec= t Exchange directly to the Internet if at all possible. > > What I'm lo= oking for are recommendations for "free" SMTP servers that > I can use = for this purpose. I would like to include basic anti-virus > and SPAM = control as well. Unfortunately, I have no money (other than > my > ti= me) to do this project so am looking at minimal cost products. > > Any = suggestions for e-mail gateways. I've looked at postfix and qmail > b= ut am not sure that they are appropriate. I could use the built in > s= endmail, but worry about security. I'm in the middle of this kind of p= roject right now. Using postfix-SMTP server clamav-free antivirus a= mavisd-new-plugin daemon that redirects mail to spamassassin and the cl= amd antivirus for checking Mail comes in, gets checked for viruses, an= d then checked and scored as spam. Quarantines things that don't pass,= forwards everything else to our internal Exchange server. Postfix is = a good choice for me; it's a drop in replacement for sendmail and tends= to be simpler to configure. All absolutely free...we only paid for th= e server hardware to do this. -Bart *** Disclaimer *** The infor= mation in this Email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is= intended solely for the named recipient. Access to this Email by anyone= else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient or the empl= oyee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the recipient nam= ed, please note that any use, disclosure, copying, distribution of this E= mail or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is proh= ibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us by retur= ning a copy of the Email with the subject line marked "wrong address" and= then deleting the Email, and any attachments and any copies of it.
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