From: Scott McCarty (smccartyeyemg.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 08:00:39 CDT

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On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Carlos Williams wrote:
> I am running Postfix 2.3 as a corporate email server. I love running Postfix
> and don't want to switch to something else however SPAM is getting way out
> of control on my companies domain. Everyone is complaining about SPAM and I
> have to find a solution to this. Right now I have the following installed:
>
> - CentOS 5.1 = OS
> - Postfix 2.3 = MTA
> - Dovecot 1.0 = MDA
> - Amavisd-new = Not Configured
> - Spamassassin = Not Configured
> - ClamAV = Not Configured
> - Procmail = Not Configured
>
> My problem is that I am being suggested online to have ClamAV and
> Spamassassin run via Amavisd-new. I have never done this before and I am
> very scared I will end up losing control of this email server in place for
> Exchange or something like that. I want to do everything in my power to keep
> Postfix running here but I need to find a way to integrate SPAM scoring and
> SPAM filtering along side with the MTA / MDA.
>
> Does anyone have a complete guide or anything they recommend?
If you are worried they will force you into exchange or some other pay for
product and you are also worried about breaking upgrading what you have, you
might look at an external email filter like Postini or AppRiver. I have used
them both, they are not perfect, but they require way less time from the
administrator. Companies like this usually have a wev interface to quarantine
and release, also the prices are usually fiarly cheap (AppRiver is 75 cents a
mailbox per month), and they have a team dedicated to getting rid of spam.

Just an idea.

> I have read
> Postfix.org and there are so many different manuals and all of them seem to
> do things their own way. I just want one that works. At this point the
> company I work for would even wire a consultant to come out to Orlando and
> help us get this running.
>
> Thanks for any assistance!
>
> --
> This EMAIL was sent from a Linux (virus free) environment...
>

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Scott McCarty
EYEMG.com LLC - Interactive Media Group
190 North Union St.
Akron, Oh 44304
Office: 330-434-7873 ext 214

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