How would you use crm114 for spam filtering? Also, I am unfamiliar with dkim and dmark, -- I do have sendmail -- how would those help? Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Juan Hernandez writes: > > I need webmail, imap, virtual domains, spam/antivirus protection, etc. > > Let's take them one at a time ... > > webmail > This one is easy. Go with squirrelmail . > > imap > Another easy one, dovecot . > > virtual domains > Any mta worth its salt will give you this. It's pretty trivial, e.g. in > sendmail you simply add domains into a config file, one per line. If > need be, you can get more elaborate, e.g. direct mail addressed to > a@b.c. to d@e.f. It's all very doable. > > spam/antivirus protection > This one is more complicated, and more important. I'm sure you're not > interested in becoming an open relay for every spammer on the planet? > So: > > Antivirus -- You probably only care if you have users on Windows. > clamav is my choice for this, though mine is curently broken--I don't > have windows clients. > > anti-spam -- much of this depends on a good mta configuration. Today's > mta's, you'll probably select either sendmail or procmail, set you up > by default with a pretty good configuration. You'll want to carefully > read your way through the config file to understand what's going on. > This is the starting point. > > Next is the process of sorting the mail that arrives into "probably OK" > and "probably junk" piles. People used to rely on spamassassin for > that, but I found it far too resource heavy and stopped using it about > two years ago. I'm now using crm114. And, with Jason White, I'm looking > at possibly moving to rstampd . > > In any case, you'll want to configure dkim and dmark for your mta. > These assist the net in assuring you and everyone else that what you > receive, and what you send is legit. > > Spam is a never ending battle. Expect to need to work on your > configurations and approaches from time to time as the months and years > go by. > > If this sounds daunting, that's probably good. It's not a trivial task, > but it can be fun and certainly can be rewarding. I certainly have no > interest in giving up my setup for some service somewhere else. > > hth > > Janina > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
