University MailScanner Setup

[Monis Monther]

Thanks for sharing this info

We also use MailWatch for monitoring, but one thing I cant find in it is
when a mail is blocked due to bad file name or type it only says Bad content
but no details stating what the reason was, so I have to go through the
maillog and check what exactly it was, this process could be a little bit a
hurdle for HelpDesk team as they need a simple GUI tool and also they dont
have shell access on the server.

We also use mailscanner-mrtg to keep graphs for statistical info.




On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Rose, Bobby <brose at med.wayne.edu> wrote:

>  We use Sitescope to monitor all out boxes for such things as CPU, Mem,
> Disk and mailscanner/sendmail process count and port 25 connectivity (if
> load is high then sendmail doesn’t accept connections thus alerting us to an
> issue).   I also use a modified version of mailstats now called vispan which
> is based on perl and mrtg (http://www.while.org.uk/content/view/9/5/).  We
> also do quarantining and per user whitelisting/blacklisting using MailWatch
> (http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/).
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> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of *Monis Monther
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:17 PM
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> *To:* MailScanner discussion
> *Subject:* Re: University MailScanner Setup
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> Can you please also add how you monitor, and if anyone posts a solution
> please add the monitoring solution with it, Thanks
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> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Rose, Bobby <brose at med.wayne.edu> wrote:
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> We have two boxes (somewhat similar hardware) using LVS (with Piranha as
> GUI) for the load balancing of smtp.  Our message counts are around 90-110
> thousand.
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> Bobby Rose
> Wayne State University School of Medicine
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> -=B
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of shuttlebox
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 1:55 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: University MailScanner Setup
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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gottschalk, David <dgottsc at emory.edu>
> wrote:
> > Then we would just have a bunch of MailScanner machines fronted by a load
> balancer to handle all inbound email (I'd imagine we need more than six
> after doing so)
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> I doubt you need to spend money/time on a dedicated load balancer.
> Just setting up all your MailScanner servers as MX hosts in your DNS
> should do the trick for free. Load balancing via round robin from DNS
> and failover from SMTP automatically picking the next MX if one is not
> available.
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