On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:39:12 US/Eastern
rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> All
>
> A friend, who is the sys admin at a small local not for profit organiztion
> (Family Services Center), is having a really hard time with tons of spam
> bombarding the organization's email server.
>
> He asked me, because I am known as the "Linux Zealot" if there exists a product
> that could be built on a small linux box that would augment their existing email
> server. (I think they run Exchange and use outlook as the client)
>
> He mentioned creating a server that would sniff the email as it came in before
> it hit the mail server and kill the spam. I don't know if this can be done or not.
>
> This is somewhat outside my area of expertise but it sounds like a great
> learning experience and a chance to help a worthwhile not for profit organization.
>
> I'll get more info on the actual hardware and software they use and report back.
>
> Regards
> Russ Wright
Sounds like you may be looking for something like the "Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy" ( assp.sf.net ). Proxy all their mail through this before it hits the exchange(ugh) server, and voila! There are probably several similar things, as this would be a topic of great interest to UNIX/Linux admins universally. I've heard many good things about junkfilter ( junkfilter.zer0.org ), but it's only for use with procmail, I believe.
HTH,
Levi
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