From: Terry Carmen (terrycnysupport.com)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2008 - 14:10:00 CDT

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Ronald MacDonald wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> This is one of these grey areas which I'm not too sure which list to
> post to! If you get what I mean
>
> I've had a nice set up for quite a while, using Postfix virtual and
> SA+maildrop as a simple (and effective) spam thwarting system. I've
> got a user who's got another email account on a remote server, who
> wishes to keep that specific email account, but wishes to filter mail
> through these spam filters. Rather than forwarding mail to the this
> box, would there be any way of deleting spam on the remote server
> according to rules defined on this box, without taking the mail off it
> at all? I'm thinking a bit of a hacked-together perl, has anyone got
> any better ideas?
Postfix doesn't need to run on the SA box. It could be anywhere, so you
could certainly configure the remote server to use whichever instance of
SA you wish.

However unless you're running over a VPN or have bulletproof IP
filtering, I'd be very uncomfortable exposing SA on a public interface.

Terry

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