Re: [LUG] Mail Servers

[David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Keasley wrote:

> I am getting Broadband in the not to distant future, Yay!, and 
> am thinking of setting up my own mail server.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on which mail server software to
> use? Initially I am thinking of either using Postfix or Exim, 
> though I am open to other suggestions.
>
> Ideally the server should be able to use blocklists to cut down on spam,
> and be able to use either, or ideally both, procmail and spamassassin
> for further filtering, preferably without requiring complicated hacks to
> get them to work properly.
>
> Security is another issue, naturally, as is the ease of setting up a
> configuration that is fairly 'locked down' and doesn't act as an open
> relay.
>
> Any suggestions or preferences?
>
>  
I found myself in an identical position recently and I went with 
Postfix. It is closed-relay by default and the configuration is dead 
simple (at least compared to Sendmail). I got it running with Procmail & 
SpamAssassin with relative ease (the only difficult part for me was 
learning the structure of a .procmailrc file).

There's a good howto for getting SpamAssassin and Anomy (a malware 
filter for stripping things like .vbs attachments, javascript etc.) at 
http://www.advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html.

Don't really know anything about Exim...

David.

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