Topic: Spam Help

[glowthian]

I am running 3 5.5 SME servers (VPN's) and I have a new 6.0 server with SpamAssassan installed and would like to test it out. My mail server is one of the 5.5 servers on a T1 with say abcd.com as the primary domain. I thought I could set up the 6.0 box on our backup DSL as spam.abcd.com and forward mail from the 5.5 to the 6.0 box but anything.abcd.com resolves the MX record to the 5.5 box.
I may have nuked this and made it to hard, any sugestions.

Greg

[gzartman]

I believe you could setup the 5.5 box to pass off email processing to your 6.0 box using the Delagate Mail server option in the Email server-manager panel.  

It's been awhile since I used this, but I believe that this function will simply pass the raw messages straight to the 6.0 machine for processing. You wouldn't need to set up the 6.0 machine as a conic domain to the 5.5 box.

Greg Zartman

[glowthian]

I was hoping there was another way other than creating all the accounts and moving all the mail just to test one or two accounts to see how it works, or if I even have it working.
I do have domains that are not beeing used, can I set up 9876.com on the 6.0 box and have mail from 1234.com forwarded to the same account on 9876.com and maintain SpamAssissan's full functions?

[gzartman]

What's keeping you at SME 5.5 anyhow?  That's a REALLY old version of SME.  You should really consider upgrading to something more current.

In any event, I believe you maybe be able to process email through spamassassin on the SME 6 box, then pass off processing to the 5.5 box using the reverse of what I told you to do earlier.  Setup your SME 6 box to function under your primary domain, then set the Deligate Mail Server option in this box to point to the 5.5 box.  

Greg

[glowthian]

Thats where I'm going. The only thing I use the 5.5 boxes for is E-Mail and VPN. I have tried to setup 6.0 several times in the past to run the VPN's with no luck and 5.5 works every time so here I am (don't fix what aint broke).
Spam is becoming a major problem, if I can get SpamAssissan working I will try FreeSwan on 6.0 boxes again, but replacing or moving the accounts is not in the cards.
There musty be a way to forward mail to a box that will process the spam.

[Mjohnson]

I have been running SME 6.0 as a mail front end for my exchange server.  I did this primarily as a spam fighting tool.  Here is how it is operating for me:

I am running 6.0-01 Custom ISO with the Spam Filter and Anti-Virus packages from Swerts-Knudsen installed.

The SME server is set to delegate email processing to the exchange server.

The SME server has one user account set up (user) in addition to the default admin account

The sole user account (user) has pseudonym's assigned to it which match the exchange email addresses I want the SME server to process (See below)

The exchange server domain address and the SME domains are both set to xyz.com

SME receives the email for xyz.com, processes the RBL list and rejects positive hits.

The antivirus software scans and quarantines any positive hits.  A message is forwarded to the administrator.

SME then processes the mail using SpamAssassin and modifies the headers with the appropriate rating

For email received which match the pseudonym's, SME also BlackList and WhiteList processes as well as deleting SpamAssassin mail rated higher than 15.

For email received which does not match the pseudonym's list, it merely passes those on to the exchange server without regard to the White/Black list or the SpamAssassin ratings.

This has been a very well performing system for me.  I have an older computer set up to do the SME work and it works great.

I hope this helps.