What to migrate to.

[Lance Haig]

Hi Tracy,

I will need to perhaps get a fresh install going and then look to add 
the extras you have.

I last time I ran the DCC pyzor Razor additions was when I ran MailWatch.

Thanks for responding

Regards

Lance

On 04/11/2013 21:58, Tracy Greggs wrote:
> I have been using the same setup on Centos 6.x, MS with Baruwa for quite
> some time, with SA, Razor, Pyzor and DCC.   Additionally I use the
> xtables-addons for iptables to do geoip blocking of Russia, China and some
> others.  Its free and works well and only really needs an geoip update once
> a month as that is about as often as Maxmind updates their data, and easy
> enough to crontab a job to do that for you.  Not only does the geoip
> blocking get rid of the spam, it also stops the unauthorized access attempts
> to your other services such as POP3 etc.  Fail2ban is something you might
> also want to look at if you have a lot of hacking attempts at your POP3,
> SSH, FTP or whatever.
>
> I also wonder if you are using any RBL at the MTA level or only scoring them
> with SA?
>
> Best wishes,
> Tracy Greggs
>
>
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> Subject: What to migrate to.
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> Hi All,
>
> I have been an avid mailscanner user for many years now and I have recently
> been running a MS server with Baruwa front-end.
> Recently no matter what I do I seem to be letting SPAM and Virus mail
> through, and loads of russian spam.
>
> So I think it is time to rebuild my server as it has been running for more
> than 2 years and I do like to rebuild the OS from time to time.
>
> So my question is:
>
> What is a good combination of MS / Front End/ addition scripts and rules
> that will make a good MS solution for my small installation.
>
> I only use this for personal mail domains so don't have budget for a paid
> solution.
>
> I host my current server on a kvm host on my main server.
>
> I would really appreciate some guidance
>
> Thanks
>
> Lance
>
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