[SUMMARY] spam solution for Solaris 8 sendmail hub system

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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:55:44 -0500
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org

I have received an incredible number of responses to my question in a
short period of time and I want to thank everyone who replied. As I
have received so many replies, I have decided to post a summary rather
than to quote everyones email. By far, the overwhelming response was
to use Spam Assassin. Here is the summary by votes/suggestions.
Several people suggested more than one product:

Votes - Suggestion

1 - why on earth would you do that
12 - spamassassin http://www.spamassassin.org
1 - sent spam prevention tips
3 - CanIt - http://www.canit.ca/
6 - use realtime blacklist/open-relay database
4 - procmail/procmail based solution
1 - websense
1 - PerlMX - http://www.activestate.com
3 - dspam - http://www.networkdweebs.com/products/dspam/
1 - Trend eManager
1 - Superscout - www.surfcontrol.com
3 - MIMEDefang - http://www.mimedefang.org/
2 - Bogofilter - http://bogofilter.sf.net

I will probably go ahead and give Spam Assassin a try first and see if
will meet my needs.

Vacation/out of office messages - I received 9 of these. People,
please fix your mail and don't send these to the mailing list.

For Rich, who asked why on earth I would do this; the sales/marketing
people want lookout calendaring/scheduling and currently they have that
on a legacy m$/exchange system. If you think this is bad, just think
how much worse it would be having a windows (smtp mail system) box
exposed to the internet.

The original message is posted below.

Thanks again for everyone's help and suggestions,

Jerry K

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Jerry K wrote:

> I have a Solaris 8 system that I currently have configured (using
> sendmail) as a mail hub. In more detail, I have a /etc/mail/access
> file that blocks mail from several sites and also allows a couple of
> host to relay. No mail is delivered locally on this host. All
> incoming mail (for about ~20 users) is forwarded via an
> /etc/mail/aliases file to an internal pc based mail system.
>
> I am looking for suggestions on something, in addition to my
> /etc/mail/access file that I could use to reject spam messages as mail
> comes into this system based on keywords. Solutions could include
> either a commercial or open source solution.
>
> I will summarize,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry K
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