MailScanenr based relay server

Wed Apr 21 21:25:54 IST 2004

 Based on the expected volume of
> > This server has an average daily mail load of 10000 messages, 52% of
> > which is SPAM, another 3% are viruses

Would the a PIII 1GHZ, 1GB sdram, on a tyan thunder LE s2510 be sufficient.
Thanks.

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

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Ronnie Regev
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:20 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] MailScanenr based relay server

Jamey,
Your offer to help is very much appreciated.
The only problem we might encounter is that im from Montréal, and a huge
canadiens fan, and seeing as how the canadiens are about to start beating
the lightning....  :)

Back to the topic at hand. I am going to start working on setting up 7.3
with the latest version of mailscanner.
using example.com as my example domain,
In order to have mail routed to the new spam filtering server, I would
change the A record for mail.example.com to point to the new IP?
Once mail is filtered, which function, or process would know to transfer the
mail to the original server? As much detail as possible please.
As I go along, ill post my results and questions.
Thanks again.

Ronnie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamey Nelson [mailto:jamey at teamlightning.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:08 PM
To: ronnie at daslweb.com
Subject: Re: MailScanenr based relay server

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Ronnie, 

        I'd be interesting in helping you get this setup if you'd like. My
suggestion 
is to install redhat 7.3, get MailScanner working with sendmail. Once you
get 
this working, you need to add your domains to the relay.allow file, then in 
your mailertable you need to make entries like this, I'm using example.com 
for example hosted domain, and yourserver.com as your ensim server:

example.com             smtp:[mail.yourserver.com]

These entries have to be duplicated for each of the ~170 domains .

After this, run make and restart MailScanner.

I know this is not even close to being clear, so write back your questions. 

- --Jamey

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:41, you wrote:
> Primary server.
> As per secondary, I have available to me a P3 GHZ, 1GB SDRAM, same hard
> drive setup.
> Software wise, ideally I would like to stick with red hat 7.3, using
> sendmail. Exact version don't matter to me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ronnie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamey Nelson [mailto:jamey at teamlightning.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: ronnie at daslweb.com
> Subject: Re: MailScanenr based relay server
>
> Ronnie,
>
>       Is this the specs of the secondary server that you want to use, or
> of the
> primary server you want to offload the mail from?
>
>
> --Jamey
>
> On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:29, you wrote:
> > 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
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