From: Charles Gregory (cgregoryhwcn.org)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 12:24:30 CDT

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Thank you to all who replied to my inquiry. If it helps anyone still
pondering a reply, one additional 'need' to be fulfilled by this effort is
for me to have something 'canned' sufficiently that a less technical
volunteer could 'follow directions' to setup a new box and install it as a
'backup' to a server that has failed. So the initial install should
proceed as much as possible from a pre-defined package list, copying
custom config files as its final step. I'll take care of that last part,
but having the integrates postfix/spamfilter as described would be a great
start! Thanks again!

- Charles

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Charles Gregory wrote:
> This might seem off-topic, but it *does* have a postfix 'angle'.... :)
>
> I'm sure you're all tired of hearing me whine about my
> 'unsupported' Red Hat 9 system with its outdated postfix. (smile)
>
> I've looked at Debian, and I like it. But I always seem to get 'lost in
> the details', and it has Exim for its default mail transport. I want to
> use postfix. (Told you there was an angle.) So what I hope someone on this
> list may already have, is:
>
> A 'setup script' (or whatever else the install files might be called)
> to build a 'standard' Debian Server on a basic Intel box, WITH:
> - Postfix pre-selected as the default mail transport
> - A good spam filter that handles things like spam body link RBL's.
> (Spamassassin preferred, I know the config)
> - And that spam filter should be 'integrated' into the SMTPD process,
> on the 'front end' so that any mail identified as spam will generate
> an SMTP REJECT. This will save me worrying about false positives,
> because the sending mail transport will generate a DSN. Does
> 'amavis-d' do this?
> - Having clamav installed would be nice, but I can do that myself
> if I need to.
> - Oh, and it would be very nice if 'IPTABLES' was setup to run
> from a /etc/init.d file on startup. Or other firewall.
> - The other major component I need is the Apache web server, which
> if someone has it pre-configured to handle 'suexec' CGI scripts,
> and SSL, that would be a bonus. But I can live with 'standard' setup.
>
> Please feel free to respond privately or to the list, as you feel is
> appropriate. I'm sufficiently adept at editing scripts if someone just
> sends their own custom 'bare metal' startup script, and I have to massage
> all the IP addresses, domain names, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> - Charles Gregory
> HWCN System Geek :)
>

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