MailScanenr based relay server

[Ronnie Regev]

Thanks for the reply,
Here is my scenario:

I am running Ensim Webpplaince Pro 3.5.20-9 on red hat 7.3, Sendmail v
8.11.6, mailscanner 4.14, ClamAV 0.54, SpmAssassin 2.53 on a P4 1.8, 1 GB
DDR, IDE hardware raid1 w/ 2x 80gb 7200 rpm hd.

I am hosting 170 sites, with 52 MySQL database driven websites, the rest are
static html.
This server has an average daily mail load of 10000 messages, 52% of which
is SPAM, another 3% are viruses

I would like to stay within red hat 7.3 if possible, as im most familiar
with that. As per my Linux experience, I can get by, and I have some good
friends.

Im looking forward to getting some more info, as this could be an
interesting and very effective solution.
Let me know what else to fill.
Thanks.

Ronnie Regev
System Administrator
Microsoft Certified Professional MCP
Daslweb Inc.
514-874-9809
ronnie at daslweb.com

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Peter Bonivart
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:36 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] MailScanenr based relay server

Ronnie Regev wrote:
> Hi,
> I am interested in setting up a mail relay server to act as a spam
filtering
> only mail server.
> My goal is to offload MailScanner from my mail server, set it up on a
> secondary server, which will scan all incoming messages, filter out the
junk
> and viruses, and forward the proper messages to my real mail server.
> I have found this document,
> http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html, which uses
> Postfix, and only spmassassin.
> Does anybody know of any documentation or howto's on this subject. Perhaps
> some advice.

Depends on what OS and MTA you like. The most common combo here is
probably Red Hat/Fedora and Sendmail. Depending on your Unix experience
it might be of importance to have many friends. ;-)

Give us a little more info on what hardware and software you want to use
and an estimation of how many mail you will process a day and we can
guide you better from there.

--
/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.29.7,
SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.39, ClamAV 0.70 + GMP 4.1.2, Vispan 1.3