[nzlug] Mail + antiSpam + antivirus - your preference?

[David Hawke]

Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:32:34PM +1300, David Hawke wrote:
>   
>> Ditto on a debian vps on rimuhosting  as mx2
>>     
>
> mx2? You're not advocating a secondary MX machine, are you?
>   
Nope - not advocating ... but need it ... had some issues with the 
connections at the downstream end. The mx2 end is a duplicate and in a 
position to be able to make it the primary with only minor effort.
> Although "best practice" when the specs were originated, a secondary MX
> these days is no longer appropriate for a small net presence.
> Dual-primary is fine, but secondaries are no longer a good idea.
>
> *If* the secondary has an equivalent anti-malware setup (which means at
> the very least that it always has the up-to-date list of valid users)
>   
Yup :-)
> then it's possibly of value - otherwise it just acts as a spam-soak, and
> when it re-delivers to the primary, you've lost all the originating-IP
> address details used by RBLs to block the message (as opposed to
> labelling it as spam by content inspection)
>   
Blocked by RBL at the mx2, so they don't get through.
>   
>> Thought about going to postfix, but qmail has been rock solid for me for
>> a long time.
>>     
>
> Once you've one through the pain of figuring out qmail's config
> idiosyncracies, and patched it with the features you want, I can see
> absolutely no reason to move away from it :-) I'd never recommend
> installing qmail over anything else, but once it's in and running it's
> still stable as hell and very fast. No need to change.
>   
Definitely - actually once you've done a few, they are surprisingly 
quick and easy to set up.

David H
> -jim
>
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