Open source equivalent of Mail Marshall

Hi all, Is there an equivalent of 'Mail Marshall' for Linux/FOSS? I am aware of clamav and spamassasin but have never configured them. Anyone care to recommend a preconfigured server for a corporate network. Cheers, Chris

Is there an equivalent of ‘Mail Marshall’ for Linux/FOSS?
I am aware of clamav and spamassasin but have never configured them.
Anyone care to recommend a preconfigured server for a corporate network.
TechnologyWise in Tauranga [1] used to sell service around SME Server, which has email configured with ClamAV and SpamAssassin [2]. Maybe worth contacting? Cheers, Peter References: [1] http://www.technologywise.co.nz/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

If you don't mind paying for a service, you could look at something like Roaring Penguin's offer: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/ Spamassassin needs a lot of continued love to make work really well, and if you don't want to invest the time in hand holding it (let's face it, no one does!) then you're probably better off paying for a managed solution. SA also appears to be dead as far as community rulesets go. Other alternatives include dspam (http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/), but I don't have any experience with it. IT needs a fair bit of training too, but apparently gets much better results than SA. I've probably had the best reduction in spam by implementing a form of greylisting though: over the last month, 160,000 emails rejected via greylisting, 2400 rejected by spamassassin, and 15000 delivered. I could probably improve my spam figures if I showed SA more love, or removed it in favour of DSPAM or something else, but I personally only get around 1-2 spam per day after greylisting and SA, and Thunderbird catches those anyway.
Hi all,
Is there an equivalent of 'Mail Marshall' for Linux/FOSS?
I am aware of clamav and spamassasin but have never configured them.
Anyone care to recommend a preconfigured server for a corporate network.
Cheers,
Chris
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Thanks Daniel, I've had a quick look and might request a quote from "roaringpenguin". Thanks again, Chris From: wlug-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:wlug-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Daniel Lawson Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2014 3:40 p.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Open source equivalent of Mail Marshall If you don't mind paying for a service, you could look at something like Roaring Penguin's offer: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/ Spamassassin needs a lot of continued love to make work really well, and if you don't want to invest the time in hand holding it (let's face it, no one does!) then you're probably better off paying for a managed solution. SA also appears to be dead as far as community rulesets go. Other alternatives include dspam (http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/), but I don't have any experience with it. IT needs a fair bit of training too, but apparently gets much better results than SA. I've probably had the best reduction in spam by implementing a form of greylisting though: over the last month, 160,000 emails rejected via greylisting, 2400 rejected by spamassassin, and 15000 delivered. I could probably improve my spam figures if I showed SA more love, or removed it in favour of DSPAM or something else, but I personally only get around 1-2 spam per day after greylisting and SA, and Thunderbird catches those anyway. Hi all, Is there an equivalent of 'Mail Marshall' for Linux/FOSS? I am aware of clamav and spamassasin but have never configured them. Anyone care to recommend a preconfigured server for a corporate network. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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