{Disarmed} Re: New to MailScanner

Tracy Greggs mailscanner-list at okla.com
Thu Jul 31 02:48:43 IST 2014


Hey Greg:

Here is my take for whatever it is worth:

1 – effective front-end spam filtering ←YES!!!
2 – free software ←YES!!!

3 - Daily reports:

OK for this you would want IMO either:

A: MailWatch - https://github.com/mailwatch/1.2.0

MailWatch has been around since 9/2003, the development team has changed in the past few years, I have been working with one of the coders, Phil Randal to clean up most of the issues with the current 1.2.0 Beta 6 Dev and it still needs a few minor fixes but all in all a great interface.  The reporting function works OK at this point in time but is due for some recoding that I am sure will be done in the near future.
PHP web interface/MySQL DB

B: Baruwa - https://www.baruwa.org/ 
 V1.x has an rpm repo for installation ease and it is free. V2.x packaged versions require an annual subscription, http://www.baruwa.com
 V2.x Source installation appears to still be free, not 100% sure though.

They have a MW vs Baruwa comparison chart at https://www.baruwa.org/blog/2013/04/26/baruwa-vs-mailwatch---a-feature-comparison-update/
I haven't run the newer 2.x versions because among other reasons it does not have sendmail support.  I think it only supports Exim and Postfix.

Good luck with it, need any help with MW just ask.

Regards,
Tracy Greggs

From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Greg Ledford
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:04 PM
To: 'MailScanner discussion'
Subject: RE: {Disarmed} Re: New to MailScanner

I’m mostly trying to accomplish three things: 1) effective front-end spam filtering 2) FREE software to do it 3) a daily report sent to users to see what was captured so they don’t wonder if they missed a client email that was caught as spam and rejected. I’m not sure if this software will even meet my needs but I’m open to ideas and suggestions. Thanks to everyone for your help.


Greg Ledford
PHHW Technology Services LLC
1000 Corporate Centre Dr, Ste 200
Franklin, TN 37067
Office (615) 778-1777
Cell (615) 403-6989
Fax (615) 771-0081
Email gledford at phhwtechnology.com

From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Tracy Greggs
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:03 AM
To: 'MailScanner discussion'
Subject: RE: {Disarmed} Re: New to MailScanner

I don’t use postfix so I could be off base here, but according to the snertsoft site, milter-ahead works with postfix as well as sendmail.

I guess the whole point of my suggestion in the 1st place is that the original poster would want to use some form of recipient verification before processing with MailScanner IMO.  In my case Milter-Ahead does a great job but there is always more than 1 way to do things.

Regards,
Tracy


From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alex Neuman
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:09 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: {Disarmed} Re: New to MailScanner

I've gone the milter-ahead route myself a couple of times; don't know if/how it applies to Postfix. I did find this through Google:

http://acidx.net/wordpress/2014/06/installing-a-mailserver-with-postfix-dovecot-sasl-ldap-roundcube/

In section 6 it describes how Postfix can check LDAP for valid recipients, if I interpret it correctly.

Just a brain shart.





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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Tracy Greggs <mailscanner-list at okla.com> wrote:
Milter-Ahead is just a commercial mail filter addon.  It is a 1 time cost of
a little over 100.00 US.  It checks with the exchange box to see if it is a
valid recipient before MailScanner processes it.  It caches results as well.

If we wanted to have a discussion about free and not free, exchange is
certainly not free.

I was merely trying to point out that in a MailScanner gateway setup for
exchange, Milter-Ahead works great for making sure the recipient is valid on
the exchange server before any processing.

It really has nothing to do with spam filtering, it just keeps you from
processing mail with the MailScanner gateway and shipping it to the exchange
box after when it is not a valid recipient on the exchange box in the 1st
place.

Perhaps you misunderstood the point I was making.

How does graylisting do that or have anything to do with that?

Regards


-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mogens
Melander
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 2:36 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: RE: New to MailScanner

It's probably just me, but.

Why would the OP need a paid service to do, what his free, and very potent
gateway, will do for him, in less cycles. Saving him the hassle of dealing
with a commercial entity, instead of a friendly and helpful user community.

A few keywords in google's search box would bring him more helpful
suggestions than yours.

BTW. I use sendmail too. I use smf graylisting:

http://www.greylisting.org/implementations/sendmail.shtml

https://www.google.dk/?gws_rd=ssl#newwindow=1&q=smf+greylisting+postfix

If it's not postfix friendly, something similar should be easy to find.

Just a brain fart.

On Tue, July 29, 2014 20:47, Tracy Greggs wrote:
> I use sendmail, so someone else can comment on your postfix question.
>
>
>
> I would make a suggestion to turn on the Exchange antispam feature for
> recipient checking and run MILTER-AHEAD with your MailScanner MTA.  It
> is cheap but not free, but well worth the expense.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tracy Greggs
>
>
>
>
>
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Greg
> Ledford
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:49 AM
> To: 'mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info'
> Subject: New to MailScanner
>
>
>
> Hello. Please be kind as I'm still learning the program and I'll have
> lots of questions. Is there a webpage that lists the instructions to
> install MailScanner + Postfix if you are using it as a front-end for
> an Exchange
> 2010 server? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>
>
>
> Greg Ledford
> PHHW Technology Services LLC
> 1000 Corporate Centre Dr, Ste 200
> Franklin, TN 37067
> Office (615) 778-1777
> Cell (615) 403-6989
>
> Fax (615) 771-0081
> Email  <mailto:gledford at phhwtechnology.com>
> gledford at phhwtechnology.com
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