[KLUG Members] SMTP email question

[Rusty Yonkers]

Ok, this will probably sound like email 101 for you all out there,
but I have always used GroupWise, cc:Mail (that goes back a while),
Exchange (bleach), etc.  I am thinking about something a bit
different here now.  Here is the deal.

We have an Exchange system here.  We do have SMTP mail out of it.  I
want to be able to force a standarized signature or footer to all
Internet email messages that state some confidentiality statement for
legal reasons.  I do not see any way to do it in the Exchange system.
 Actually it looks like M$ saves the signature information in the
normal.dot file on the local machine and not in the Exchange system
at all (talk about stupid!!! no wonder I have to setup my signature
everytime I move to another machine).  

So what I am thinking of doing is to forward all SMTP email from
Exchange to a Linux box running (name your favorite mail program
here), append the statement to the end, and then send it out to the
Internet.  I would have inbound messages go through this same box so
that I can do filtering of email for spam on the inbound trip too.  

I am thinking that I would setup either qmail, or sendmail, or
postfix, and then setup a forward on Exchange to point to it.  I
would then setup spamassasin to filter spam and have the MX record
point to the Linux box.


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Russell C. Yonkers Jr. 
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+ certified
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Currently using SuSE 9, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and WinXP 
And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers
See my personal website http://www.geocities.com/therustycook
Or my consulting site at http://www.atomicsupergeek.com


		
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