Re: Fresh install of Dspam - if used as a gateway do I need to install a mail server on it

Hi Denis.

Thank you for replying. Now that I read your response and my post I realize that I was unclear about the virtualization aspect. I would definitely like to have an Internet-> Dspam filtering-> exchange type of setup so as to not add load and I guess reduce load on the Exchange server. What I forgot to mention was that I have a separate machine on which I have installed Oracle's VirtualBox and would like to install Ubuntu (or any other flavour if it's easier or better :) ) and then Dspam that is then configured to filter and forward to the exchange server. Also, I should mention that while I'm not new to Linux I am a newbie when it comes to Dspam. I haven't found something like an administration manual that I can digest so I'm still unclear on how the mail gets routed through Dspam and I'm u
 nsure about whether I need to install a mail server (I believe it's postfix by default on Ubuntu) for Dspam to function or will it work if I install the prerequisites which as I understand are essentially the LAMP stack. However, I have no problems or resource restrictions installing the mail server. My guess is that this is a very basic question that most people in this mailing list already know.

My understanding of your reply and the link you provided (very helpful) is that Dspam does require a mail server for routing the email to Dspam to process then passes it back to the mail server for relaying (in this case) i.e. internet-> MailServerA-> Dspam-> MailServerA-> MailServerB where

MailServerA = Postfix
MallserverB = Exchange

And in my case everything between the internet and MailServerB is on the same machine (my virtual machine in this case). Traffic on 127.0.0.1 should be allowed so that Dspam and mail server A can pass emails back and forth. The ServerPort is the port on MailServerA that receives mail from the internet which would probably be 25 and the DeliveryPort is anything we want it to be but it's the port configured on MailServerB to receive email sent to it from MailServerA
Have I read it correctly?

I have found the documentation in the Dspam download that is quite helpful but if anyone knows of any other documentation in more of a Dspam for dummies format rather than the How-To format I would appreciate it if you could let me know where it is. :)

Thanks

Joe




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