[KLUG Members] new email server

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I have a Suse 9.2 box sitting idle and I need a department mail server
> > for ~20 people. My only email server experience is Sendmail on an old
> > Solaris 2.7 box. Can someone please recommend a mail server setup,
> > ideally with spam filtering, and possibly virus scanning.
> > Does anyone know a good howto or at guidance of what I should steer
> > clear of to avoid a horror story?
> > I see that Suse 9.2 comes with Sendmail, Postfix and Spam-assassin, but
> > doesn't have a YAST GUI for them.
> I'm pretty sure you can configure a real basic MTA (sendmail or postfix)
> with YAST on SuSE 9.2.  Look harder!  :-)
> IMO, spam-assassin sucks (the last time I looked at it anyway).
> Flames/disagreement to advocacy list please.

Yep;  and boy with that thing flog your server.  Better get a quad-Xeon.

> I've heard good things about gray-listing for controlling spam,
> (or is it spelled "grey-listing"?) but never tried it personally.

Best thing ever; SPAM, what SPAM?  And no silly filtering,
"baysien" (sp?) or not, or whatever - filtering is just wrong headed.

> clamav isn't bad for a free virus scanner that runs on the server.

Yep.  No deep love, but it works.  In general the most annoying thing
with clamav is the clamav project itself.

> I also learned to hate "amavisd-new" (SuSE uses) and found configuring
> spamassassin and clamav the native milter route to be a better solution.
> Personally I eliminated a LOT of headaches by going the commercial route
> for virus & spam control. (still running SuSE 9.2/sendmail as my MTA)

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20050412/5305a477/attachment.bin