MailScanenr based relay server

[Ugo Bellavance]

Ronnie Regev wrote:

 > 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....  :)

Hi,
I'm from montreal as well and that's never been a problem.  You can 
contact me off-list if you want...

 >
 > 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
 >
> 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
> 
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> 
> 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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